Re: Minix support, part 5

[Bruno Haible]

Thomas Cort wrote:
> A lot of the FILE related stuff changed in Minix 3.2.0 with the import
> of our new NetBSD based libc and NetBSD based includes. It might be
> more beneficial to target Minix 3.2.0 which will be released as stable
> in a few months. By the time the gnulib changes get integrated into
> third party software, released, added to pkgsrc, and imported into our
> pkgsrc tree, Minix 3.2.0 will probably be stable.

Note that the current code, meant to work with Minix 3.1.8, will then
likely lead to compilation errors with 3.2.0. And that means compilation
errors in m4, coreutils, findutils, and other packages. So, given that
it takes some time for gnulib changes to propagate into new releases,
it would be useful if you submit gnulib patches for these changes as soon
as these changes are stable; before Minix 3.2.0.

For reference, to test the stdioext area of gnulib, you do
$ ./gnulib-tool --create-testdir --dir=/tmp/testdir --with-tests \
  --single-configure fbufmode fflush fpurge freadable freadahead \
  freading freadptr freadseek fseeko fseterr fwritable fwriting fpending
$ cd /tmp/testdir
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make check

Of course I'm not interested in changes that make Minix 3.2.0 work and
at the same time break on Minix 3.1.8. That means, some Autoconf test
or #ifdefology will likely be needed.

Bruno
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