Re: Status of Mac OS/X ports of git and cogito?

> Patrick and Jason CC:'ed because they also have portability
> issues and seem to have good ideas about how they should be
> solved.  Linus CC:'ed because he once expressed rather strongly
> his dislike about autoconf.
> 
> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > I have three fixes in my personal tree without which git refuses to 
> > compile:
> >
> > - daemon.c needs a define or typedef for socklen_t.
> 
> I still keep that patch around (the patch was end of July), but
> have not touched it only because I did not hear from you asking
> about its inclusion.
> 
> > - mailinfo.c needs to have a simple strcasestr implementation, because 
> >   10.2.8 (at least in my setup) is lacking it!
> 
> Yes, I've used it knowing that it is marked as a GNU extension,
> hoping if somebody else can supply a patch to work it around ;-).
> 
> I am slightly reluctant to do autoconf [*1*], but I might be
> tempted to take patches if it is done cleanly.