Patrick and Jason CC:'ed because they also have portability issues and seem to have good ideas about how they should be solved. Linus CC:'ed because he once expressed rather strongly his dislike about autoconf. Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes: > I have three fixes in my personal tree without which git refuses to > compile: > > - daemon.c needs a define or typedef for socklen_t. I still keep that patch around (the patch was end of July), but have not touched it only because I did not hear from you asking about its inclusion. > - mailinfo.c needs to have a simple strcasestr implementation, because > 10.2.8 (at least in my setup) is lacking it! Yes, I've used it knowing that it is marked as a GNU extension, hoping if somebody else can supply a patch to work it around ;-). I am slightly reluctant to do autoconf [*1*], but I might be tempted to take patches if it is done cleanly. As a workaround until I am convinced otherwise and we go fully autoconf, I am inclined to introduce a new subdirectory in the source tree, compat/, which would house compat/linux.h, compat/darwin.h, compat/solaris.h and friends, and have compat.h symlink which points at one of those files. [Footnote] *1* ...although I admit that I once used to be an autoconf freak and even had a few lines of my own code in the official autoconf distribution. It was an ancient history, most likely before libtool and automake came along. The last time I checked my changes were all superseded. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Mon Sep 12 03:34:54 2005
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