Re: commit -- Fix FreeBSD compilation


Subject: Re: commit -- Fix FreeBSD compilation
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Mon Aug 07 2000 - 18:50:02 CDT


HI Sam,
        You should forward this to the freebsd developers. I'll file this
away for later reference.

Cheers

Martin

On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, sam th wrote:

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> I have committed heavy #ifdef hackery to get FreeBSD to compile. I hate
> the C preprocessor. It shouldn't allow me to do this, so people wouln't
> get out of serious problems the way I just did. Instead, they might _fix
> _the_ _problems_.
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> wchar.h is required by the C standard.
> A correct C impementation is required for UNIX(tm) conformance.
> Therefore, FreeBSD is not UNIX.
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> I'm annoyed about this.
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> sam th
> sam@uchicago.edu
> http://www.abisource.com/~sam/
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