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Re: 10-fyi-m4-backend.patch
From: |
Akim Demaille |
Subject: |
Re: 10-fyi-m4-backend.patch |
Date: |
05 Feb 2002 13:10:55 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Common Lisp) |
| On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 11:05, Akim Demaille wrote:
| > Index: ChangeLog
| > from Akim Demaille <address@hidden>
| > Give a try to M4 as a back end.
| >
| > * lib/readpipe.c: New, from wdiff.
|
| This immediately kills any and all DOS/DJGPP support, as there are no
| pipes or forks on those platforms. If it is possible to do the same
| using popen()/pclose(), that _would_ work on those platforms.
Aaaaaaaaaarg.
Well, well, well. I'd like some input from Paul here. Paul, is tried
to avoid popen/pclose for performance issues, when running m4. Would
you say, that's a pointless optimization and just use popen, or,
should readpipe fallback to popen/pclose when pipe/fork are not
supported?
| > * data/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4, data/m4sugar/version.m4: New,
| > shamelessly stolen from CVS Autoconf.
|
| Oh dear - I hope its maintainer doesn't mind... I heard he was a really
| difficult person to work with :-P
Nah. He's an as*le, granted, but I have a trick: I have him
manipulated by his girlfriend. Niarf niarf niarf :)