Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 17:39:21 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Comments on pmake diffs for building on Linux Message-ID: <20080304153920.GB61036@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <20080304153128.GC27540@saraswathy.madambakam.org> References: <20080303.224256.635730757.imp@bsdimp.com> <200803041701.36466.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20080304153128.GC27540@saraswathy.madambakam.org>
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On 2008-03-04 21:01, Girish Venkatachalam <girishvenkatachalam@gmail.com> wrote: >On 17:01:28 Mar 04, Daniel O'Connor wrote: >> I did this a while ago when porting some of our code to Linux because it >> builds with pmake.. >> >> Your patches are much nicer than mine however :) >> >> The tailq stuff could be shoved into a linux.h or some such.. So it's >> more obvious what it's for and why it's there. >> > > PMI but why do I see tailq in gentoo? > > I was taken by surprise when I found my code compile and run beautifully > few months ago. > > I am wondering if that is the case, then why port it? Minor compatibility nits here and there, which can turn a simple TAILQ_FOREACH() call to a nightmare of nested preprocessor hells :)
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