From owner-cvs-ports Mon Feb 17 12:51:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA13657 for cvs-ports-outgoing; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 12:51:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.ucdavis.edu [128.120.37.176]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA13642; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 12:50:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (reqd-003.ucdavis.edu [128.120.251.123]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.8.4/8.6.12) with ESMTP id MAA06793; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 12:50:57 -0800 (PST) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) id UAA24327; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 20:50:53 GMT Message-ID: <19970217125052.YL39908@dragon.nuxi.com> Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 12:50:52 -0800 From: obrien@NUXI.com (David O'Brien) To: pst@shockwave.com (Paul Traina) Cc: CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-ports@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/gcc/config/i386 freebsd-elf.h freebsd.h References: <19970216232903.WR49823@dragon.nuxi.com> <199702171932.LAA26323@precipice.shockwave.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Disclaimer: Mutt Bites! Organization: The NUXI *BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 In-Reply-To: <199702171932.LAA26323@precipice.shockwave.com>; from Paul Traina on Feb 17, 1997 11:32:16 -0800 Sender: owner-cvs-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Paul Traina writes: > I don't have something to take to the table. However, I do have a list of > suggestions: > (a) this is OS, not compiler dependant > (that means it has to fit in the specfile at a minimum) > (b) runtime is better than compile time for many things, however > runtime is not a do-all win > (c) capability bits are far better than datecodes > (d) it has to let one or more of the other guys get out of sync > > That's why I think autoconf is the way to go, instead of having one or > two symbols. I'd much rather know that I have the poll() system call than > that I'm running FreeBSD > 19970220. I agree to all that... but how does it resolve the situation? -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org)