Re: Porting git to HP NonStop

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Aug 22, 2012, 21:54 UTC
Message-ID: <7vharu6196.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <005201cd80ac$4cd414b0$e67c3e10$@schmitz-digital.de>

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

> I thought of having the function decclaration in git-compat-util.h, just
> like for eg. setenv, gitmkdtemp, etc.

Yeah, that's also fine, especially if you do not have to declare structures and constants.

Once you start having to declare other things in order to declare the function missing on the system, it won't be like setenv where a pair of #ifdef NO_SETENV/#endif just surrounds a single line. At that point, a separate header file to hold them together would become easier to read. It's a judgement call; we'll see how it turns out (we do not have to get everything right in our first attempt).