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Date:      Wed, 2 Sep 1998 07:39:53 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Joachim Kuebart <joki@kuebart.stuttgart.netsurf.de>
To:        dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au (David Dawes)
Cc:        joki@kuebart.stuttgart.netsurf.de, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: XFree86 and ELF
Message-ID:  <199809020539.HAA01414@yacht.domestic.de>
In-Reply-To: <19980902123708.A21469@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> from David Dawes at "Sep 2, 98 12:37:08 pm"

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David Dawes wrote:
> Can I ask a naive question?  Is there any reason the FreeBSD/ELF rules
> need to be different from those used for Linux/ELF (see lnxLib.cf)?  Also,
> please keep in mind that bsdLib.rules is used for NetBSD and OpenBSD too.

I haven't really looked at the Linux rules closely enough to comment
on that. However, if they could be used it would be worth a little
work.

> >> > -#if defined(Lynx) || (defined(SYSV) || defined(SVR4)) && !defined(ACK_ASSEMBLER) || (defined(linux) || defined(__OS2ELF__)) && defined(__ELF__)
> >> > +#if defined(Lynx) || (defined(SYSV) || defined(SVR4)) && !defined(ACK_ASSEMBLER) || (defined(__FreeBSD__) || defined(linux) || defined(__OS2ELF__)) && defined(__ELF__)
> 
> My preference here is to remove the OS checks, which should simplify that
> #ifdef a bit.

To be honest I thought of that change but was afraid to do it. I don't
understand why it isn't simply '#ifdef __ELF__' in the first place, so
I was afraid to break things for somebody else.

cu Jo

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