Re: [RFH] NetBSD 6?

From: Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com>
Date: Jan 3, 2013, 18:27 UTC
Message-ID: <rmiobh6rujt.fsf@fnord.ir.bbn.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vvcbew895.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

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> I forgot to mention that we also ship configure (and keep track of
> configure.ac) so that optionally people can let autoconf machinery
> to create config.mak.autogen to be included at the same place as
> handcrafted config.mak in their build process.  I do not offhand
> know if we do "for p in python python2.6 python2.7; do ..." kind of
> thing, though.

pkgsrc uses the configure method, but it seems not to output a PYTHON_PATH. It looks like automake's python.m4 is not used by git's configure.ac. But pkgsrc passes PYTHON_PATH in the environment to make, so it works out currently.

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> It refers to the type of the second parameter to iconv(); OLD_ICONV
> makes it take "const char *", as opposed to "char *", the latter of
> which matches
>
>   http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/iconv.html

Thanks - I now see our extra const and am looking into it.