On 5/15/05, Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 07:51:57PM -0400, Charles Lepple wrote: > > Looks like Debian's patch file removes the redefinition entirely > > (Debian bug #294319), but the above patch should detect whether or not > > abs() is available. > > We can afford to do that on Debian because our source only needs to > compile on non-braindead systems... However a better fix is probably > needed for upstream.
Just an observation-- didn't mean to make it sound like I was knocking Debian's patch. > Having said that, which system does not have abs()? I don't know specifically, but the OS X man page says it conforms to C99. Maybe it wasn't part of C89. -- - Charles Lepple
