I demand that Marc Dequènes (Duck) may or may not have written... > Coin,
? > Please consider applying this patch in your next release, so as to add > support for the Hurd system. It contains seveval parts : > - posixness_fix patch: relying on PATH_MAX unconditionnaly is an important > POSIX incompatibility; The Hurd does not need such limit so it is not > defined. The best fix would be to rewrite several parts of the software to > use dynamic allocation when PATH_MAX is not defined, but this would be > larger and more complex changes, so this small workaround would be enough > at the moment Agreed, but sending the full version upstream would be good. > - hurd_support patch: a very short Hurd-specific patch to correct use of an > include file not needed and not existing on Hurd Seems fine (so long as it doesn't break things elsewhere). > - dvb_optional patch: we cannot build with DVB support on Hurd, due to > missing and currently unimplementable ioctls, so this patch, along with the > 'reautogen' patch add the necessary configure option to deactivate DVB > support on Hurd No. The option is acceptable, but the test must be "= yes" on (at least) Windows & Hurd and "!= no" elsewhere. I will *not* accept DVB being disabled by default when building xine-lib on systems where the plugin is buildable and will work. > - rules changes to use the new DVB configure option and adapt the list of > files to install; this is very similar to the kfreebsd needs Also, please > help us push the software changes back upstream, so maintenance would be a > lot easier. A patch series against http://hg.debian.org/hg/xine-lib/pkg/xine-lib-deb would be much preferred since it can easily be applied upstream ("hg transplant", mostly), though debian/rules might be a bit tricky. (An "hg bundle"-generated file is fine for this.) -- | Darren Salt | linux at youmustbejoking | nr. Ashington, | Doon | Debian GNU/Linux | or ds ,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + Generate power using sun, wind, water, nuclear. FORGET COAL AND OIL. If you have nothing to say, please only say it once! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
