On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 08:12:54PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> David Miller wrote:
>
> > [Subject: [SHELL] Allow building without LINEO support.]
>
> Thanks! Debian has been using something like this (but unconditional)
> to convince autoconf not to use dash as CONFIG_SHELL, to work around
> bugs in various configure scripts[1]. I imagine other users might
> want the same thing, so a patch like this seems like a good idea.
>
> I think LINEO should be LINENO in the subject line.
>
> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/582952
So this isn't the reason why Debian has been stuck on 0.5.5.1?
If so what is the reason please?
> Makes sense. The following on top trims away some code in the
> !WITH_LINENO case, though it's kind of ugly. Maybe something like
>
> #ifndef WITH_LINENO
> static void update_lineno(void) { }
> #else
> static void update_lineno(void)
> {
> lineno = errlinno;
> if (funcline)
> lineno -= funcline - 1;
> }
> #endif
>
> would make it more palatable.
Yes please do it like that.
Thanks!
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