[htdig-dev] Cygwin configuration

[Lachlan A. <lh...@us...>]

Greetings all,

On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 05:50 pm, Gabriele Bartolini wrote:
> I am sorry about that. But if we want to easily maintain the
> configure system, we should avoid manually hacking aclocal.m4
> files. Usually we should modify the acinclude.m4 and regenerate
> aclocal.m4 through aclocal.

Yes, it is my fault for modifying only automatically generated files.  
A proper patch (which I wrote before your email arrived...) is 
attached.

> In this case however, I would suggest a different approach, that is
> to say insert a conditional compilation into the os_abs.c file. At
> the end there is the simple patch I'd commit. Let me know what you
> think and if you have the chance to try it, let me know (I don't
> have any C++ compiler on Windows).
>

That certainly is an option.  However, doesn't it defeat the point of 
that whole file?  Files that were in the  os  directory (and being 
with an os_ prefix now) were supposed to be different for each OS, to 
encapsulate these differences.  That said, Gabriele's solution is 
probably the neater option, since all the other OS-dependent files 
are just the Un*x ones.

> I ask you another big favour: if someone of you could please revise
> the Release.html file.

You did a good job on it, Gabriele.  I can't think of any real 
revisions that are needed.

Cheers,
Lachlan
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