On 26 jan 2004, at 11:40, Karl-Michael Schindler wrote:
With the MacOS X port available, i played (maybe fooled) around in order to port some of the basic units, such as termio crt video keyboard serial.
I managed to get it compiling by transferring missing definitions of constants and types from netbsd of freebsd versions to termio*.inc files or simply copying missing files from the *bsd folders to the darwin folder. Now to my questions:
Is this actually a sound way to proceed? The problem for me is that I do not know the detailed meaning of all the stuff and therefore, I do not have a real clue, whether this is appropriate at all?
In general, yes (because the unix side of Mac OS X comes from *BSD). It's best to double-check with original C-header files from which the include files were derived to see whether it's correct, though (/usr/include/termios.h, /usr/include/sys/termios.h)
After successful compilation, how can I test the units?
Because crt can't be tested automatically (you can make a program that tests whether everything is written in the right place on the screen), you have to do "manual" verifications: try some programs that use these units and check whether the output is correct.
Finally, if this is ok and of any value for the project, how would I submit the files?
Send them to me, and I'll commit them.
Thanks!
Jonas
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