Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 16:23:14 +0600 (LKT)
From: Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel <kalum AT lintux DOT cx>
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Porting software using Autoconf? Easing the pain...
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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..

Thanks,
Grendel
 

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