On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 12:18:21PM -0800, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> One of the recommendations in style(9) is
> inherently non-portable.  I'm trying
> to ensure that the new code I'm writing
> for FreeBSD is portable to other systems,
> so I've been scratching my head over
> how to deal with the version ID code
> that is supposed to apear as the first
> two lines of any FreeBSD source file:
> 
> #include <sys/cdefs.h>
> __FBSDID("$FreeBSD$");
> 
> Clearly, I cannot reasonably assume that all
> platforms define a __FBSDID macro in
> sys/cdefs.h.

Our compiler defines __FreeBSD__. You might be able to do:

#ifdef __FreeBSD__
#include <sys/cdefs.h>
__FBSDID("$FreeBSD$");
#endif

The advantage of something like this is that you don't spam the
library on non-FreeBSD systems. Just a thought...

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 Marcel Moolenaar         USPA: A-39004          [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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