[sane-devel] Usage of LIBOBJS/ALLOCA in Makefiles

2009-01-27 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Chris Bagwell chris at cnpbagwell.com writes: [snip] Second question is this: I don't think its a good idea to link internal versions of standard functions into the backends. As I mentioned earlier, its super common for all projects to do this. If we link in, for example, snprintf into

[sane-devel] Usage of LIBOBJS/ALLOCA in Makefiles

2009-01-26 Thread Chris Bagwell
Hi all, I notice that sane-backend's has the pretty common setup where it looks for functions that are commonly missing from some platforms and compiles its own internal version and they are all located in lib/ directory. I also see that it creates a library named liblib.a but no one usages