On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 12:45 +0100, Bruno Haible wrote: > Alan Hourihane wrote: > > The only commitment I'm asking from gnulib is to apply patches that we > > submit. They'll be #ifdef __MINT__ anyway, isn't that acceptable ?? > > A patch with #ifdef __MINT__ certainly helps us understand the issue. But > we need a plain-text description of the issue as well. Just applying > patches with #ifdef is not gnulib's way of doing: When we apply a patch, > we try to make it useful to as many platforms as possible. Often a problem > exists in several platforms; we prefer a single autoconf test to a couple > of #ifdefs.
Oh sure. Absolutely. Most (if not all) of the patches, anyway, are things to do with freading/fpurge/freadahead/etc set of functionality, which seem to be already heavily ifdef'd for older OS's. Alan.
