From:	Teun Burgers <burgers AT ecn DOT nl>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Portability patch for DJGPP to glib-1.2.6
Date:	Fri, 18 Feb 2000 09:42:23 +0100
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Teun Burgers wrote:
> 
> > The patch adresses two problems:
> >
> > - djgpp does not have a functioning fork.
> >
> > - djgpp comes with pwd.h and a struct passwd.
> >   However struct passwd on DJGPP
> >   does not have a member pw->gecos.
> 
> Why can't the configure script check for these two issues and DTRT
> automagically?  In particular, AFAIK Posix doesn't define the gecos
> member in struct passwd, so a portable program shouldn't rely on it.

The glib CVS version 1.3.1 already checks for pw_gecos, so that's
solved.

> Please consider packaging glib in the usual DJGPP manner and uploading
> it to SimTel.NET. Thanks

So I did.

There are a few instructions missing in the upload howto:

- where to put formatted man-pages (man/cat? ?)
- How to generate info-files with extension .i1, .i2 etc

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