Aaron Stone wrote:
Magnus has an important point: don't check for an OS, check for what its
behavior is. I believe that in this case, we're talking about activating
parts of a system-dependent header with this flag. That the flag is system
dependent is not at issue; it's how we test that.
If
Magnus has an important point: don't check for an OS, check for what its
behavior is. I believe that in this case, we're talking about activating
parts of a system-dependent header with this flag. That the flag is system
dependent is not at issue; it's how we test that.
If the approach is like
Original Message
From: Aaron Stone dbmail@dbmail.org
To: dbmail@dbmail.org
Subject: Re: [Dbmail] PATCH: dbmail_configure_check_os.patch
Sent: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 00:58:48 -0800 (PST)
Magnus has an important point: don't check for an OS, check for what its
behavior is. I believe that in this case
Hi,
Is this really whise?
I remember the old time when you should compile emacs. You had to look
in the README file and change something in a configuration file with a
text editor and then write make.
A few years later, the way of compiling emacs was
./configure
make
Where the configure script
Hello Magnus,
What I suggest is that you test for the LINUX capabilities in the
configure script. By this way will the software be much more portable to
other operating systems.
You apparently misunderstood what Ryan said; this is exactly what
the patch does. Just run ./configure and if
Adds support for checking what OS you're using, and adding a -DLINUX if
its linux. In the future it will also help for adding os specific
checks for other things.
Addresses Dave and Jesse's need for -DLINUX for right now. This patch
also has the autoconf/automake reran, which updates the paths
is built against dbmail-1.1 source,
but I think current cvs is identical.
Thanks,
Jesse
Original Message
From: Ryan Butler dbmail@dbmail.org
To: dbmail@dbmail.org
Subject: [Dbmail] PATCH: dbmail_configure_check_os.patch
Sent: 27 Feb 2003 11:44:20 -0600
Adds support for checking what
