From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed May 22 9:14:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from squall.waterspout.com (squall.waterspout.com [208.13.56.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 293B037B41D; Wed, 22 May 2002 09:14:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: by squall.waterspout.com (Postfix, from userid 1050) id A82ED9B13; Wed, 22 May 2002 11:14:40 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 11:14:40 -0500 From: Will Andrews To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: Will Andrews , portmgr@FreeBSD.ORG, re@FreeBSD.ORG, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Alpha package building status Message-ID: <20020522161440.GO53809@squall.waterspout.com> References: <1F095B0753FCD411857700010333058A04EEC8BF@waexch1.qgraph.com> <15595.40622.377080.973573@moe.cs.duke.edu> <20020522143405.GN53809@squall.waterspout.com> <15595.49495.889584.825785@moe.cs.duke.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <15595.49495.889584.825785@moe.cs.duke.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.26i Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 12:03:35PM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > OK. Here it is. > > On 4.x only, there are only inline byte swap routines for x86. > On alpha, they're called htons and htonl. > > On 5.x, this is standardized across all platforms, so this fix is only > for < 5.0 Can you embed this fact in the patch itself so I don't have to hack the Makefile only to apply the patch when OSVERSION < 500000? If you do that you can commit just the patch itself. (Unless I am misunderstanding and this patch would not cause problems on 5.0?) Thanks, -- wca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message