From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 16:20:45 GMT
Subject: Porting to a new platform
Message-ID: <7v1ujelnvm.fsf_-_@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <003901cd7708$fa482c10$eed88430$@schmitz-digital.de>

"Joachim Schmitz" <jojo@schmitz-digital.de> writes:

> - HP NonStop is lacking poll(),...
> - HP NonStop is lacking getrlimit(), fsync(), setitimer()...

I would check compat/win32 and friends and see what other platforms
that lack this and that do, if I were you.

> so telling configure to search for c99  should help here.

In general, the top-level Makefile is designed to be usable without
ever worrying about "configure" mess.  Just define CC for the
platform section there, and optionally add a support to flip the
same in configure.ac.  This applies equally to other conditional
compilation options you may have to add to support your platform.