Message-ID: <00b301bf1564$7e2c0430$293f8589@gv015029.bgo.nera.no>
From: "Gisle Vanem" <gvanem AT eunet DOT no>
To: <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Cc: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Subject: Re: <sys/config.h> patch
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 12:19:38 +0200
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> said:

>sys/config.h is not supposed to have a HAVE_xx definition for every
>library function.  In fact, sys/config.h is nowadays deprecated
>because DJGPP ports of GNU software are now configured by running the
>configure script via Bash.
>
>Please tell the details about the case where you needed this, and why
>you need sys/config.h to handle that case.  I'd like to make only
>minimal changes to sys/config.h that are absolutely necessary, because
>they might break the few packages that *do* use sys/config.h.


Lynx, the Web-browser is ported to djgpp (DJ started that port as you probably know).
But the configure script doesn't handle djgpp so <sys/config.h> is included instead.

Gisle V.