Andreas Buening <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| I downloaded the latest version of the GNU file utilities from
| ftp.gnu.org and tried to compile it with OS/2. I encountered a lot of
| problems, until I finally got some executables. (And there is some
| work to do to get the executables working properly).
|
| There are three kinds of problems:
| 1) configuring problems
| 2) symbolic links (the functions lstat, readlink, link, ...
| are missing)
| 3) OS/2 specific stuff: e.g. extended file attributes
|
| I think all of them can be solved without too much trouble.
|
| My first question is: Are you willing to implement my changes into
| the offical distribution? If yes, are you willing to discuss
I'm willing to listen. 1 and 3 sound doable.
As for #2, I'm very skeptical of adding #if* directives to work around
a system that's so backwards that it doesn't even have lstat, readline,
link functions. It would help if you could convince me that providing
OS/2 support would be worthwhile.
| how to solve some problems consistently (e.g. by introducing a new
| macro HAVE_LSTAT)?
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