Matthias Andree wrote:
The whole #ifdef approach is massively broken and prone to mis-guess. It denies one of the most basic considerations, and that is: operating systems change over time, and add features missing from earlier versions. Looking at the operating system is insufficient. [snip] Note I am not saying you need to use a fully-fledged autoconf approach, lighter-weight alternatives have been seen in the wild, and possibly it suffices - for FreeBSD - to have a separate header (.h) file that checks the major FreeBSD version and #defines a few HAVE_SOMEFUNCTION or leaves it #undef'd, so the actual code can then
That just means the cpp dancing is moved elsewhere. Someone needs to maintain that header, because OSes <quote> change over time </quote>.
on his hands, so some concept similar to autoconf might work in more places with less human work and more machine work during the build.
I agree, autoconf is the best approach. But *someone* needs to write it. -dborca _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
