Re: MINT

[Alan Hourihane]

On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 12:45 +0100, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Alan Hourihane wrote:
> > The only commitment I'm asking from gnulib is to apply patches that we
> > submit. They'll be #ifdef __MINT__ anyway, isn't that acceptable ??
> 
> A patch with #ifdef __MINT__ certainly helps us understand the issue. But
> we need a plain-text description of the issue as well. Just applying
> patches with #ifdef is not gnulib's way of doing: When we apply a patch,
> we try to make it useful to as many platforms as possible. Often a problem
> exists in several platforms; we prefer a single autoconf test to a couple
> of #ifdefs.

Oh sure. Absolutely. Most (if not all) of the patches, anyway, are
things to do with freading/fpurge/freadahead/etc set of functionality,
which seem to be already heavily ifdef'd for older OS's.

Alan.