Date:	Tue, 2 Jan 2001 10:58:28 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To:	Jean Michel <jmichel AT schur DOT institut DOT math DOT jussieu DOT fr>
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Subject:	Re: Bug in djgpp libc
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On 1 Jan 2001, Jean Michel wrote:

> The suggestions  you made imply put  some ifdefs in the  ruby source for
> this particular port. I  am not a ruby developer, but  I get the feeling
> this port  is not very  popular anyway (Cygwin  one is more  popular) so
> people may  just stop supporting the  djgpp port if too  many ifdefs are
> needed...

The suggestions I made are quite simple.  I doubt if you'd need more
than a single #ifdef'ed fragment to implement any of them.  In my
experience with maintainers of various packages, a clean patch with a
well explained reason will not be rejected in most cases.

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