On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Patrice Dumas <pertu...@free.fr> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 02:42:27PM +0100, Markus Neteler wrote: ... >> Since it is only 4 files (or perhaps less used), why not incorporating these >> files into the GRASS source code? > > Maybe it would be overkill, but gnulib is designed for such portability > issues, maybe grass could use that more generally? > > http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/ > > I checked that there is some xdr support (from glibc): > http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/Glibc-rpc_002fxdr_002eh.html#Glibc-rpc_002fxdr_002eh > > There is an entry cost, though, and it integrates better when automake > is used too. Also the fact that grass requires an old autoconf may be > troublesome.
Unfortunately it will not help: http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/xdrmem_005fcreate.html#xdrmem_005fcreate -> Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: This function is missing on some platforms: Cygwin 1.7.4, mingw, BeOS. ... and MingW is one of the relevant platforms... Markus _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev