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To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Subject: Re: conditionally including <sys/param.h> 
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Date: Wed, 05 Feb 1997 19:21:19 -0700
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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In message <199702051745.EAA12664@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Bruce Evans writes:
: strerror() doesn't exist on old systems.

True.  But how old is old?

: I think we should just use `#ifdef __FreeBSD__' and <sys/param.h> in
: ports.  Original authors should use a better method to suit themselves.

Yes, but this whole thing got started because the #ifdef __FreeBSD__
was slowly turning into
	#if defined(__OpenBSD__) || defined(__NetBSD__) || defined(__FreeBSD__)
in a bunch of places due to those projects riding along on the FreeBSD
port's coat tails.

Warner