From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Markus Duft Subject: Re: git interix support Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:13:57 +0100 Organization: Salomon Automation GmbH Message-ID: <4B989835.2010805@salomon.at> References: <4B962456.20600@salomon.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Daniel Barkalow X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Mar 11 08:15:25 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Npcc8-000569-0h for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:15:24 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752880Ab0CKHPS (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:15:18 -0500 Received: from smtp.salomon.at ([193.186.16.13]:54897 "EHLO sauxb.salomon.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752732Ab0CKHPR (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:15:17 -0500 Received: from servex01.wamas.com (servex01.salomon.at [172.28.2.2]) by sauxb.salomon.at (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id o2B7FBaI000388; Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:15:12 +0100 (MET) Received: from [172.28.8.166] ([172.28.8.166]) by servex01.wamas.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:15:11 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100308 Lightning/1.0b2pre Thunderbird/3.0.3 In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 11 Mar 2010 07:15:11.0343 (UTC) FILETIME=[96817FF0:01CAC0EA] X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.54 on 172.28.2.13 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 03/10/10 19:32, Daniel Barkalow wrote: > On Tue, 9 Mar 2010, Markus Duft wrote: > [snip] > > If you've got programs that don't work at all without some library > function that you don't have, it's better to not build them at all (by not > having them in the make targets) than build binaries that refuse to run. > Doing it that way means you don't need to get the rest of the file to > compile, and makes it more clear before runtime what functionality will be > missing. > > Also, if you make a NO_POLL and use that, someone else might make a > compat_poll(). Or maybe not, but a workaround certainly won't get done if > you just use __INTERIX. thanks for the input (all of you). i will spend some more time, doing a better patch... :) markus > > -Daniel > *This .sig left intentionally blank*