Re: [RFH] NetBSD 6?

2013-01-08 Thread Greg Troxel
Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com writes: [OLD_ICONV] It refers to the type of the second parameter to iconv(); OLD_ICONV makes it take const char *, as opposed to char *, the latter of which matches http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/iconv.html I just wanted to

Re: [RFH] NetBSD 6?

2013-01-08 Thread Junio C Hamano
Greg Troxel g...@ir.bbn.com writes: Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com writes: [OLD_ICONV] It refers to the type of the second parameter to iconv(); OLD_ICONV makes it take const char *, as opposed to char *, the latter of which matches

Re: [RFH] NetBSD 6?

2013-01-08 Thread Greg Troxel
Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com writes: Don't get too offended by the OLD_ prefix to that symbol, by the way. I do not think old means old and broken hence fixed in newer version and you are low life if you live on a platform that has to define it ;-). Thanks - it did throw me at the

Re: [RFH] NetBSD 6?

2013-01-03 Thread Greg Troxel
Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com writes: I forgot to mention that we also ship configure (and keep track of configure.ac) so that optionally people can let autoconf machinery to create config.mak.autogen to be included at the same place as handcrafted config.mak in their build process. I do

Re: [RFH] NetBSD 6?

2013-01-02 Thread Greg Troxel
Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com writes: [query about NetBSD-6] The 2.7 bit certainly looks fishy, as users should be able to choose between 2.6 and 2.7 (and possibly 3.0), IIUC. + PYTHON_PATH = /usr/pkg/bin/python2.7 + PERL_PATH = /usr/pkg/bin/perl (I am one of the people who

Re: [RFH] NetBSD 6?

2013-01-02 Thread Greg Troxel
Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com writes: I would appreciate if somebody with more familiarlity with the platform can suggest a better alternative than applying the following patch to our Makefile. Right now I have an equivalent of this change in config.mak locally when building on the said

Re: [RFH] NetBSD 6?

2013-01-02 Thread Junio C Hamano
Greg Troxel g...@ir.bbn.com writes: I realize a README.foo file for N different systems could be clutter, but having these checked in would provide the concise help that people on any of those platforms need. Our Makefile documents knobs people on various platforms can tweak (PYTHON_PATH and