From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: Porting software using Autoconf? Easing the pain...
Date: 24 Jul 2000 12:55:28 GMT
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Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel <kalum AT lintux DOT cx> wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Eli Zaretskii spoke the following immortal words,
>> 
>> The usual way to do so is to supply a working strdup which is only
>> used when Autoconf doesn't find one in the target library.  That's
>> what GNU packages do.

> Thanks, I am aware of this, but what I really would like to know, is *what
> are the functions* that I have to supply, Is there a list somewhere which
> would help me know what are the functions that I should supply if I want
> to port it to other UNIX flavours..

The DJGPP libc docs should you give you a good hint: if a function is
listed as 'not ANSI', you'll want to supply a fallback implementation.
Even more so it if it's not even POSIX.

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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.