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> Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:22:58 -0600
> From: Rugxulo <rugxulo AT gmail DOT com>
>=20
> Hi,
>=20
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT gnu DOT org> wrot=
e:
> >> Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:59:50 -0600
> >> From: Rugxulo <rugxulo AT gmail DOT com>
> >>
> >> From my limited experience, I don't think the Gnulib maintainers
> >> intend to support DJGPP more than already. At least not Bruno Ha=
ible.
> >
> > This has nothing to do with supporting DJGPP. =A0A clean source s=
hould
> > not assume support for any value of errno that is not portable.
>=20
> I was basically replying to Juan who said:
>=20
> "It is not a bug in m4.  It is a bug in gnulib"
>=20
> Hence, you should know in advance that Gnulib *may* not be too help=
ful
> in implementing DJGPP patches, bugfixes, etc.

And I was basically saying that a patch to fix this should be
presented as a cleanup patch, not as a DJGPP support patch.