On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 11:30 AM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> 2) Many patches only need to be applied conditionally based on the >>> runtime environment. >> >> I would argue that such patches are fundamentally flawed as they can >> never become part of upstream. How hard is it to add an #ifdef bracket >> around your patch? > > That is also a very good point.
Here is an example patch for Python that is only applied on Itanium Linux systems: http://sage.pastebin.com/1hy3cyis Is there a non-autoconf way to have an ifdef to check for an Itanium Linux system? --Mike -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
