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Re: Minix support, part 1


From: Thomas Cort
Subject: Re: Minix support, part 1
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 19:38:21 -0400

> When working on a libc like that, be sure to periodically test it against
> the gnulib testsuite. Gnulib's testsuite checks against many (simple or
> complicated) bugs in POSIX functions.

Thanks for the tip! I didn't know it had such a test suite. I'll let
the developers working on the C library know about it.

Also, thanks for reporting that some of the headers are not
self-contained. I'll forward those reports on as well.

> Will sizeof(long double) be increased, or will it stay the same as
> sizeof(double)?

I tested it with the latest development code and they are still the
same size. I don't think there are plans to change the size anytime
soon, but I'll forward it on.

>> Also note, to get the
>> right functions and definitions included, you should have CPPFLAGS set
>> to "-D_NETBSD_SOURCE -D_MINIX -D_POSIX_SOURCE -D_COMPAT_MINIX" and
>> LDADD set to "-lcompat_minix -lminlib"
>
> Please revisit these choices. Autoconfiguring packages only set _MINIX
> and _POSIX_SOURCE, because that's in Autoconf for many years. Any change
> here takes ca. 5 years until it has been rolled out to users and people
> have created new packages with these new Autoconf versions.

I'll bring that up with the Minix developers.

Thanks again for all of the help,
-Thomas



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