A lot of the FILE related stuff changed in Minix 3.2.0 with the import
of our new NetBSD based libc and NetBSD based includes. It might be
more beneficial to target Minix 3.2.0 which will be released as stable
in a few months. By the time the gnulib changes get integrated into
third party software,
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 wrote:
> Thomas Cort wrote:
>> I've been working on pkgsrc for the Minix project and we've been
>> patching lib/spawni.c
> When working on a libc like that, be sure to periodically test it against
> the gnulib testsuite. Gnulib's testsuite checks against many (simple or
> complicated) bugs in POSIX functions.
Thanks for the tip! I didn't know it had such a test suite. I'll let
the developers working on the C library
> Thomas, can you please report these compiler bugs to the ACK maintainers?
Yes, I'll forward them on to the maintainers. However, please note
that I'm not sure if these issues will ever be fixed. With recent
Minix 3.2.0 development snapshots, we've changed binary formats from
a.out to elf. ACK on
Hello Bruno,
I'm just getting your e-mails now. I haven't read through them
completely yet, but I have some important details to add. Recently, in
the past month or so, Minix has replaced it's C library with a port of
the NetBSD C Library. Many function prototypes and definitions have
changed. A l
Hello,
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 fo
