Re: git interix support

From: Markus Duft <markus.duft@salomon.at>
Date: Mar 11, 2010, 07:13 UTC
Message-ID: <4B989835.2010805@salomon.at>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1003101319350.14365@iabervon.org>

On 03/10/10 19:32, Daniel Barkalow wrote:

> On Tue, 9 Mar 2010, Markus Duft wrote:
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> 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

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> 	-Daniel
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