Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 19:41:39 +0100 (MET) From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@knobel.gun.de> To: Greg Lehey <lehey.pad@sni.de> Cc: Paul Traina <pst@cisco.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Another Pentium gcc patch, -D__FreeBSD__=2 -Dbsd4_4 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960201192915.651A-100000@knobel.gun.de> In-Reply-To: <199602011000.LAA06724@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de>
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On Thu, 1 Feb 1996, Greg Lehey wrote:
> >> I don't think our current gcc defines bsd4_4, I'm certain it shouldn't. :-)
> >> There's a well defined way to find out what version of the OS you're runnin
> >>> g
> >> under.
When I did the gcc port, cc failed to compile some sources, because
the correct typedef for us (FreeBSD) was only included, when bsd4_4
would have beed defined. So I had to patch the sources, to add
#if defined(bsd4_4) && defined(__FreeBSD__)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I think the bsd4_4 definition should be included to make it easier
to compile stuff for 4.4 BSD. It seems to me, that it's for some
people common to test for bsd4_4. It would make it easier to
compile those sources and would decrease the amount of modifications/
patches.
> >> This gives us much finer grained control.
But if other people don't accept that standard ... We
can't force them to accept our "local" standard as "global"
standard...
> > I think that the gcc *should* define bsd4_4 (or similar). There's
> > plenty of software out there which doesn't care which 4.4BSD-derived
> > system you're running, and this would help, just like __386bsd__ used
> > to be useful.
Agreed. So I think, too. So could we meet in the middle, that
we add this definition as long as it doesn't disturb us ?
I only see the usefullness as __386BSD__...
Please re-think
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