Picking up include directories automatically
Mikey
jeffdb@netzone.com
Sat May 17 03:17:00 GMT 1997
Well, since you obviously know what you're talking about,
would you mind taking a look at the cdk/winsup/
dir, and giving us the benefit of your advice on
fixing THIS implementation to do "The Right Thing :^)"?
PS. look out for default text/binary handleing.
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From: Jason Zions <jazz@softway.com>
To: Mikey <jeffdb@netzone.com>
Cc: cygnus <gnu-win32@cygnus.com>
Date: Saturday, May 17, 1997 2:10 AM
Subject: Re: Picking up include directories automatically
>Actually, using a doubled-slash is indeed POSIX; a leading double-slash
>in a pathname is explicitly called out as implementation-defined, and a
>portable application should (a) deal with it without blowing up, and (b)
>not ascribe any particular meaning to it. If anyone is interested, I can
>get a specific chapter-and-verse citation.
>>The OpenNT POSIX-conforming environment for NT uses
>//<driveletter>/<path> consistently, with very few (if any) source
>changes required to publicly-available code. Once the
>tmpdir()/tmpnam()/tempnam() functions are modified to "do the right
>thing", most apps simply need slight changes to environment variables or
>compile-time #defines to build correctly. Apache, for instance, came up
>quite easily under OpenNT 2.0alpha and 2.0beta.
>>Disclosure: I work for Softway Systems, maker of OpenNT.
>>Jason Zions
> http://www.softway.com
>(email address diddled to prevent spamming)
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