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Date:      Tue, 06 Aug 1996 15:46:35 +0200
From:      Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
To:        "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: syserrlist (how to define out) 
Message-ID:  <199608061346.PAA14488@grumble.grondar.za>

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"Christoph P. Kukulies" wrote:
> The porting section in the handbook says to use __FreeBSD__ sparsely.
> So what would be the correct method to outcondition a 
> 
> extern char *sys_errlist[]; 
> 
> bogon?
> 
> I was tempted to use #ifndef __FreeBSD__ but after reading the
> porting recommendations I'm in doubt. The configure script of
> the package I'm trying to port doesn't seem to detect and BSDism
> so I don't have another symbol I can rely on unless I add one
> one the Makefile or configure script.

Take a look at how I did it in the patches of games/xboard.

M
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