tito, le dim. 16 oct. 2022 09:26:27 +0200, a ecrit:
> On Sun, 16 Oct 2022 02:04:59 +0200
> Samuel Thibault <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Various tools are Linuxish and should thus only attempted to build on
> > Linux only. Some features are also Linux-only.
> 
> Hi,
> just out of curiosity why can this not be fixed by simply
> creating a config file that disables the applets that are not relevant 
> for your platform?

Because it'd mean making *each and every* downstream (the various BSD
distributions, the couple Hurd distributions, BeOS, etc. etc.) have to
determine that list, while it could just be shared upstream, as all
software usually just do.

> I think this would reduce the size of the patch to the
> #ifdef O_DIRECT part which could be moved for example
> to include/platform.h.

Why moving it to platform.h? #ifdef O_DIRECT already means what it
means.

Ron Yorston, le dim. 16 oct. 2022 08:36:21 +0100, a ecrit:
> PLATFORM_LINUX was removed a couple of years ago by commit 5c69ad0ec
> (build system: drop PLATFORM_LINUX).
> 
> It had very little effect back then, now it has none.

Ah, so how would it have to be done nowadays?

Samuel
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