Re: Port of 7.11 to OpenBSD 2.7


Subject: Re: Port of 7.11 to OpenBSD 2.7
From: sam th (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Mon Oct 16 2000 - 19:35:00 CDT


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On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Justin R. Smith wrote:

> Here are my patches:
>
> In each case, I performed a diff of the form
>
> old-directory new-directory
>
> Nature of the patches:
>
> 1. wv: OpenBSD uses a different include file than other operating systems
>
> (<uio.h> rather than <io.h>). While your version included this, it also
>
> attempted to include the old file.
>
> 2. abi: OpenBSD doesn't support wide chars, so I had to code up
>
> versions of mbtowc and wctomb.
>
> 3. expat: the version of libtool included with the distribution is incorrect
>
> in its handling of shared libraries in OpenBSD.
> The patched version does this correctly and shouldn't behave differently on
>
> other operating systems.

As you will note, this patch has been sitting in my inbox for quite some
time. However, it has now been committed, and we now have a local
implementation of mbtowc/wctomb in AbiWord. I will soon enable this for
FreeBSD/etc.

Win32 people - should I do this for you folks too?
           
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