Hello Bruno, I'm just getting your e-mails now. I haven't read through them completely yet,
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> wrote: > Thomas Cort wrote: >> I've been working on pkgsrc for the Minix project and we've been >> patching lib/spawni.c in several packages (bison, gettext, m4, ...) >> because Minix lacks setpgid(). I lack the autotools and gnulib >> knowledge to patch & test gnulib itself, but in general the fix would >> involve adding a check for setpgid() and ifdef'ing out the part of >> spawni.c that sets the process group id. So, something like this... >> >> m4/posix_spawn.m4?: >> AC_CHECK_FUNCS([setpgid]) >> >> lib/spawni.c: >> #ifdef HAVE_SETPGID >> /* Set the process group ID. */ >> if ((flags & POSIX_SPAWN_SETPGROUP) != 0 >> && setpgid (0, attrp->_pgrp) != 0) >> _exit (SPAWN_ERROR); >> #endif > > Thanks for the suggestion. But that's only one small piece of support of > Minix in gnulib. If one wants to go for it seriously, the first step is > to update the documentation, and the second step is to make gnulib-tool > generated testdirs compile fine. > > > For the first step, I've updated the platforms x symbols matrix at > http://www.haible.de/bruno/gnu/various-symlists.tar.gz > and added documentation: > > > 2011-07-31 Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> > > Documentation about Minix. > * doc/posix-headers/*.texi: Add info about Minix 3.1.8. > * doc/glibc-headers/*.texi: Likewise. > * doc/posix-functions/*.texi: Likewise. > * doc/glibc-functions/*.texi: Likewise. > > [patch moved to an attachment, due to its size] > -- > In memoriam Jean Jaurès <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Jaurès> >
