From: | teunis <teunis(at)mauve(dot)computersupportcentre(dot)com> |
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To: | The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
Cc: | "Thomas G(dot) Lockhart" <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>, Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] (: JDBC+(Sun ~3:pm MST) CVS :) -also question about regression tests |
Date: | 1998-02-02 19:29:25 |
Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.3.96.980202122321.10783B-100000@sigil.computersupportcentre.com |
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> > I'll say it again and again - glibc-2.0 is the _STANDARD_ (actually
> > reference) platform for Unix. All Unix. Not just Linux.
> > Adopted last year.
>
> And...how many Unix (other then Linux) are *actually* using it?
> Any idea on how we can test whether it is being used or not?
AFAIK some BSD's are now using it - but I am probably wrong. I gave up on
BSD in '92.
> The "let's break all ports except Linux because the rest don't
> follow a new standard" argument just don't hold water for those not using
> Linux :)
There's no reason to break anything with this... This is a way of
detecting it (there are others IIRC).
#if (__GLIBC__ >= 2)
[glibc-2 stuff]
#endif
for a complicated varient.
Most of the minor nit-picks involve actually mean going into source and
fixing it. (ie - not really port-related fixes).
That and #undef HAVE_INT_TIMEZONE in os/linux.h for glibc-2... as that's
autodetected (and invalid). Detecting HAVE_SIGSETJMP would be nice to as
it really IS a function in glibc (just remapped via a #define).
AFAIK gnu's libc's are not used on just linux. So making it a linux-only
thing would be almost as bad as not fixing it in the first place... *g*
(not trying to be rude - personally I've found that the database works
well enough regardless of the regression tests :)
G'day, eh? :)
- Teunis
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