From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Feb 5 13:11:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA12222 for ports-outgoing; Wed, 5 Feb 1997 13:11:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA12174; Wed, 5 Feb 1997 13:11:31 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA15536; Wed, 5 Feb 1997 14:05:42 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199702052105.OAA15536@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: conditionally including To: obrien@NUXI.com (David O'Brien) Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 14:05:42 -0700 (MST) Cc: imp@village.org, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19970205003343.YB13323@dragon.nuxi.com> from "David O'Brien" at Feb 5, 97 00:33:43 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > : to get a new cpp symbol added (like __44bsd__ or something). > > > > This is a bad idea, since it has lost a lot of its potential meaning > > with so many 44bsd derived systems that pick and chose between 4.4 and > > 4.4 Lite 2. > > Then what would you suggest? Are they really more different than all the > various sysVr4 that define __svr4__? How close is Solaris, UnixWare, and > Irix? When DMR sent his "jeremiad" to the ANSI C committee, I sent in my own in support of a couple of his points. I also suggested "#ifclude" or something similar be used to conditionally include a header file if it existed. Unfortunately, I guess it just didn't make the cut, or was lost in the glare from other commentary... 8-(. #ifclude Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.