On Fri, Aug 12, 2005, Andreas Hauser wrote: > > I maintain two fairly large software packages: one is configured
> You .include bsd.port.mk and use PTHREAD_CFLAGS and PTHREAD_LIBS ;) That works fine on all of these: 386BSD A-UX AIX Altos BSD-OS CLIX CRAYT3E.2.0.x CRAYTS.10.0.x CSOS CVS ConvexOS Darwin DomainOS Dynix EWS-UX_V FreeBSD GNU HP-UX IRIX ISC Interix KSR LUNA Linux MPE-iX Mach386 NCR.MP-RAS.2.x NEWS-OS.4.x NEXTSTEP.4.x NeXT NonStop-UX OSF1 OpenUNIX.5.i386 PTX Paragon PowerUX QNX RISCos Rhapsody SCO SINIX SVR4 SunOS SunOS.4.0 SunOS.5 Titan ULTRIX UMAX UNICOS UNIX_SV.4.x.i386 UX4800 UXPDS UnixWare.5.i386 WinNT.4.0 WinNT.5.0 dcosx.1.x.NILE dgux m88k maxion uts.systemV right? FYI: the "software package" is sendmail (8 + X). > I think the point is, that instead of guessing, what an OS supports, > the makers of the OS shall say, what they think they support and you > only test for their claims. How? Is there something better than autoconf? My configure script tests of course whether a feature actually works as much as that is possible.
