Re: abiword-2.2.8 portability patches

From: Albert Chin <abiword-dev_at_mlists.thewrittenword.com>
Date: Tue Jul 12 2005 - 19:53:04 CEST

On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 01:42:55PM -0400, Kenneth J. Davis wrote:
>
> Albert Chin wrote:
> >We just finished building abiword-2.2.8 on Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Tru64
> >UNIX, and Redhat Linux. We have a few portability patches to submit,
> >attached below.
> >
> >1. [abi/ac-helpers/abi-iconv.m4,
> > abi/src/af/util/xp/ut_iconv.cpp]
> > The ICONV_CONST #define hack in abi/src/af/util/xp/ut_iconv.cpp is
> > indeed ugly. So, we did it right by correctly determining what the
> > correct 2nd argument to iconv() is via autoconf.
> ...
> That can only be considered right if one builds using autoconf, and
> everyone who builds Abi does not! I have not actually applied the patch
> locally to test, but from looking at it, I do not see where you define
> ICONV_CONST for non-auto builds. Or put another way, this should not be
> applied without ensuring the alternate build systems are not broke by
> doing so.

Ok, then ignore. Ditto for the SCANDIR_CONST patch. We cannot test the
alternate build systems.

-- 
albert chin (china@thewrittenword.com)
Received on Tue Jul 12 19:52:24 2005

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