Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 22:03:41 +0200 From: "Philippe Charnier" <charnier@xp11.frmug.org> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: Philippe Charnier <charnier@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/lpr/lpd lpd.c ... Message-ID: <200307072003.h67K3fuu051687@xp11.frmug.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> <p05210652bb2f55fc4c53@[128.113.24.47]>
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Salut,
Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> wrote:
>I'm willing to go with the above for the sources in lpr if it
>is reasonable to everyone. It's not quite what I want, but I
>probably should do something along these lines.
>
>Actually, let me take that a step further. How about I change
>all the source files to have:
>
>#include "lpr_cdefs.h"
>__FBSDID("$FreeBSD$");
>
[...]
>(note that I sometimes still compile lpr on an older release
>of freebsd, old enough that it does not have __FBSDID in it)
>
>That's probably a little ugly, but I could use it to get all of
>lpr using __FBSDID() so other developers will not feel tempted
>to add it "for me". And, all the ugliness is off in the one
>lpr_cdefs.h file. The nice thing about this for me is that
>I *might* even be able to use the "#ident" directive when
>compiling under IRIX, and I'll only have to change one file to
>do that.
Then we should be tempted to also add a crude hack for those OS that
do not have err() family functions, making porting easier. I think
that dealing with FBSDID is really the fastest stage of porting BSD
userland to other OS.
sys/cdefs.h seems to propose STRIP_FBSDID
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Philippe Charnier charnier@{xp11.frmug.org,free.fr,FreeBSD.org}
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