Re: PATCH zsh-3.1.5-pws-7: cygwin make fixes

["Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Feb 7, 10:49pm, Matt Armstrong wrote:
} Subject: PATCH zsh-3.1.5-pws-7: cygwin make fixes
}
} I fixed #2 by re-doing the way signames.c is created.  Instead of a AWK 
} script that gets run on a signal.h file, a C program is compiled and 
} run.  This gets it right even if the signal.h file is hard to parse.

I haven't examined the patch in detail to check this, but did you make
sure that the compilation of this program is performed in such a way that
it executes correctly on the current hardware even when cross-compiling
for another architecture?

} My fix for #1 may be controversial because it may break for people who 
} need to keep using an older autoconf.  Is upgrading a problem?

It'd be better if it weren't necessary.  Copy it into aczsh.m4 and give
it a different name, e.g zsh_EXEEXT ?
 
} My fix for #2, I think, is a good thing.  ;-)  I'd do the same thing for 
} the RLIMIT stuff if cygwin had RLIMIT stuff.

It's not a good thing if it won't cross-compile.  I didn't use to pay much
attention to this, but I've just been through this particular plane of hell
with procmail's build system (which even compiles and runs C programs to do
sed-like substition on its man page templates!) so I'm feeling sensitive.

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