Re: A bunch of patches from BSD

Subject: Re: A bunch of patches from BSD
From: Sam TH (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Wed Mar 14 2001 - 08:02:30 CST

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On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 04:11:51PM +0400, Vlad Harchev wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Sam TH wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I looked at them - the only useful patches are:
>
> http://www.abisource.com/~sam/patches/netbsd.patch
>
> As for this patch - it's funny to see it (NetBSD is the most portable OS) -
> it seems they are shipping AW for all architectures NetBSD supports (though
> I'm not sure) so that they triggerred the bug on some exotic architecture AW
> wasn't available before. This means that AW is really VERY portable..

Yes, AbiWord is indeed portable. It needed exactly 1 patch to compile
on all the 6 debian architectures.

I also think that the freebsd.2.patch is worthwhile, at a minimum.
Some of the others I just don't understand the point of, so I'll have
to look at them more.
           
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