Re: bug#54245: 29.0.50; select usage in GNUstep

[Robert Pluim]

>>>>> On Mon, 14 Mar 2022 15:10:09 +0200, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> said:

    >> I think this means we can now remove the checking for select in
    >> configure, and the HAVE_SELECT define (I took a look, but then ran
    >> into the w32 and msdos ports, and decided to stop :-) )

    Eli> If that's your problem, you could convert HAVE_SELECT into DOS_NT, I
    Eli> think.

Itʼs not really a problem, itʼs more "Is the issue serious enough to
potentially break builds for other people that I canʼt easily test"

    Eli> The HAVE_SELECT in msdos.c is for the (old and quite defunct) MSDOS
    Eli> build with Xlib (yes, there was such a beast: see those HAVE_X_WINDOWS
    Eli> in msdos.c?), so IMNSHO we can simply drop HAVE_SELECT in msdos.c.

Although this makes it sound like Iʼm worrying too much about
potential breakage.

Robert
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