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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Dec 18, 2012, 17:01 UTC
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Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> writes:
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>> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>> It could turn out that we may be able to get rid of sys/param.h
>>> altogether, but one step at a time.  Inputs from people on minority
>>> platforms are very much appreciated---does your platform build fine
>>> when the inclusion of the file is removed from git-compat-util.h?
>
> MinGW works fine with sys/param.h removed from git-compat-util.h.

It seems that OpenBSD 5.2 does not mind it getting removed, either. Debian 5 and Debian 6 seem OK; so do Ubuntu 10.04 and 12.04. I have a hunch that Fedora or anything based on glibc would be fine, too.

What other platforms do we care deeply about?
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Message 4 of 9 in “Re: What's cooking in git.git (Dec 2012, #04; Sun, 16)”
  1. Matt KraaiDec 17, 2012
  2. Joachim SchmitzDec 18, 2012
  3. Johannes SixtDec 18, 2012
  4. sys/param.hJunio C Hamano, Dec 18, 2012
  5. git-compat-util.h: do not #include <sys/param.h> by defaultJunio C Hamano, Dec 18, 2012
  6. Torsten BögershausenDec 18, 2012
  7. Erik Faye-LundDec 19, 2012
  8. Mark LevedahlDec 20, 2012
  9. Junio C HamanoDec 20, 2012

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