From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Jan 9 18:18:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id SAA07128 for ports-outgoing; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 18:18:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from po1.glue.umd.edu (root@po1.glue.umd.edu [129.2.128.44]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id SAA07113 for ; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 18:18:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from protocol.eng.umd.edu (protocol.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.180]) by po1.glue.umd.edu (8.8.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA15046; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 21:18:37 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by protocol.eng.umd.edu (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA11008; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 21:18:32 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: protocol.eng.umd.edu: chuckr owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 21:18:32 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@protocol.eng.umd.edu To: David Nugent cc: "David O'Brien" , imp@village.org, ache@nagual.ru, asami@cs.berkeley.edu, m230761@ingenieria.ingsala.unal.edu.co, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Niklas Hallqvist: archivers/hpack.non-usa.only In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 10 Jan 1997, David Nugent wrote: > "David E. O'Brien" writes: > > > I don't know ... does sys/param.h exist on _every_ last system that has > > > unix or __unix__ defined? If not, the code above is a fatal error, and no > > > good. If it's guaranteed true, it's fine, and I'd use it. > > > > I'm not really sure that older sysVr3 has it, nor SCO. > David, the question was do systems that have sys/param.h have the unix or __unix__ symbols defined. NOT do all systems have sys/param.h. I know that they don't all have it, that's what we're all trying to detect with a minimum chance of build breakage on systems that DON'T have it. > No, they don't have sys/param.h. It is a BSDism that is only > recently being more widely adopted. IIRC, AIX and DG's UNIX > don't have it either. I don't currently have access to either > HPUX or IRIX systems to check, but I somehow doubt that either > use it. > > Regards, > > David Nugent - Unique Computing Pty Ltd - Melbourne, Australia > Voice +61-3-9791-9547 Data/BBS +61-3-9792-3507 3:632/348@fidonet > davidn@freebsd.org davidn@blaze.net.au http://www.blaze.net.au/~davidn/ > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------