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Date:      Wed, 27 Oct 1999 09:19:50 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To:        Roger Hardiman <roger@cs.strath.ac.uk>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Is there anything like #ifdef BSD
Message-ID:  <19991027091949.A38799@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <3816CEDD.446B@cs.strath.ac.uk>; from roger@cs.strath.ac.uk on Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 11:07:25AM %2B0100
References:  <3816CEDD.446B@cs.strath.ac.uk>

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In the last episode (Oct 27), Roger Hardiman said:
> I'm working with someone porting linux code to FreeBSD. Actually,
> they want to port it to all BSDs.
> 
> So, rather than having
> #if defined (FreeBSD) || defined (NetBSD)
>     || defined (OpenBSD || defined (bsdi)
> 
> I am looking for a
> #if defined (BSD)
> or #ifdef BSD

Do you know that the code you will be putting inside this #ifdef is
BSD-only code (and won't be used by OSF/1, HP-UX, Solaris, etc), or
should you rather be using autoconf and checking for specific functions
(setproctitle() as an example)?

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com


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