On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 11:38:01PM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote: > Hi Jim, > > > Gnulib is more than a little about portability. > > Do we really want to discourage creation of packages > > that will work on IRIX 6.1 and AIX older than 4.3.2? > > The systems which don't have atexit() ... raise() are things like > Solaris 2.3, IRIX 5, SunOS 4, NeXTstep, Ultrix. Museumware. We haven't > heard any report from anyone using such old systems in 3 years. > Perhaps I misunderstand but on my request you recently fixed mbchar for IRIX 5.3 does that not count as a report of (gnulib) usage? There was also recent fixes to c-stack and vasprintf-posix prompted by issues with m4 on IRIX 5.3.
I'm interested in gnulib for IRIX 5&6 since I build and package software for IRIX 5.3 and 6.2 both for my own amusement and as a service to the SGI hobbyist community. Ultimately I'm only a user and I do not have the skills to maintain gnulib for these systems. I can only report what problems I see and hope that people more knowledgeable will provide fixes. -tgc
