On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 22:20:31 +0200
"Carlos R. Mafra" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks Tamas, I've pushed it to 'next'.
> 
> On Sun 13.Sep'09 at 21:05:57 +0200, Tamas TEVESZ wrote:
> > apparently my git-fu went on holidays, so the attached needs some 
> > manual intervention: after having applied (or before, as you see fit), 
> > manually remove the following files:
> > 
> > wrlib/CmapAlloc.c wrlib/CrCmap.c wrlib/DelCmap.c 
> > wrlib/LookupCmap.c wrlib/StdCmap.c wrlib/StdCmap.h
> 
> You could have used 'git rm' for that. On the other hand it
> would have created a much bigger patch, with more than one
> thousand lines being deleted. I tried to search for an
> option in 'git format-patch' which would not list the whole
> file being deleted, and just say "this file was deleted".
> Git already does that when detecting renames...
> 
> > it would be incredibly useful if people having access to commercial 
> > unixes could check this on things released in the past, say, 15 years. 
> > i believe back then i had solaris 8+and sco openserver 5+ covered.
> 
> I have a secret to tell. Currently my git repo is not expected to
> compile in a non-linux system because of the 'inotify' patch.
> That patch btw requires more work to be more 'correct' in the way
> it handles signals, but that is beyond my energy ATM and it
> has worked fine for me in the last year.
> 
> A while ago when my repo was "just mine" I wasn't worried
> about the linux-only issue (and I guess it is gcc-only too,
> due to a cleanup which I used a gcc extension for 'case'
> ranges).

Carlos, which patch was the above change in?

> 
> But I would rather wait for people who care about old or
> non-linux systems to get involved and send patches to fix
> their compilation problem then do it myself now. Perhaps
> they can even report/fix new issues which we don't even
> dream of :-)
> 

Gilbert


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