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 Message-ID: <19970217125052.YL39908@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <199702171932.LAA26323@precipice.shockwave.com>; from Paul Traina on Feb 17, 1997 11:32:16 -0800 References: <19970216232903.WR49823@dragon.nuxi.com> <199702171932.LAA26323@precipice.shockwave.com>
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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)
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