Re: Git on QNX

From: Sean Boudreau <seanb@qnx.com>
Date: Dec 16, 2009, 22:38 UTC
Message-ID: <loom.20091216T233122-388@post.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <905315640912151413g10ee5befh58fbd171237e7659@mail.gmail.com>

Tarmigan <tarmigan+git <at> gmail.com> writes:

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> >
> > Other hunks are QNX specific enough but this hunk is worrisome; you cannot
> > tell how you are hurting other platforms with this change.  Can you tell
> > declarations of which functions are missing on QNX without this change?
> 
> strcasecmp()
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/functions/strcasecmp.html
> 
> I agree that this change could affect other platforms and they've
> gotten along fine without it so far.  I'm surprised no others have
> needed it.  Would it be better wrapped in a #ifdef?
> 
> Thanks,
> Tarmigan
>

What version of qnx is this on. <strings.h> is now brought in by <string.h> and the lock() / unlock() prototypes have been removed from <unistd.h> AS OF 6.4.1 (the current release).

There's a package for git-4.3.20 here that also has a work around for the SA_RESTART issue.

ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/QNX/i386/6.4.1_head_20090724/All

-seanb