"Joachim Schmitz" [off-list ref] writes:
- HP NonStop is lacking poll(),...
- HP NonStop is lacking getrlimit(), fsync(), setitimer()...
I would check compat/win32 and friends and see what other platforms
that lack this and that do, if I were you.
so telling configure to search for c99 should help here.
In general, the top-level Makefile is designed to be usable without
ever worrying about "configure" mess. Just define CC for the
platform section there, and optionally add a support to flip the
same in configure.ac. This applies equally to other conditional
compilation options you may have to add to support your platform.
From: Junio C Hamano [mailto:gitster@pobox.com]
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 6:21 PM
To: Joachim Schmitz
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org; rsbecker@nexbridge.com
Subject: Porting to a new platform
"Joachim Schmitz" [off-list ref] writes:
quoted
- HP NonStop is lacking poll(),...
- HP NonStop is lacking getrlimit(), fsync(), setitimer()...
I would check compat/win32 and friends and see what other platforms that
lack
this and that do, if I were you.
Hmm, in compat/win32/poll.c I found exactly the same code I stole' for my
implementation (GNUlib's implementation) so I just managed to reinvent the
wheel :-(
Thanks anyway for telling me about it.
For getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE, ...), I'm now using sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX), does
that sound reasonable?
I found no replacement for fsync() and setitimer(), but have my ones since
long, so no real need.
Also would compat/pread.c, another API HP NonStop is missing, but I had my
own implementation for that since quite a while already (and it looks pretty
similar to git's one).
I don't quite understand though why neither compat/pread.c nor
compat/win32/poll.c are used automatically after having been proven absent
in configure?
Ahh, I see, it could be done by adding a HP NonStop specific section in
Makefile ("ifeq ($(uname_S),NONSTOP_KERNEL)"), right?
I'll have a deeper look and see whether I can come up with something useful
to feed back into git.
quoted
so telling configure to search for c99 should help here.
In general, the top-level Makefile is designed to be usable without ever
worrying about "configure" mess. Just define CC for the platform section
there,
Yes, that's what I did, sort of, I just set CC to c99 prior to executing
configure.
I've seen other configure though, that explicitly test for C99, so why not
this one?
and optionally add a support to flip the same in configure.ac. This
applies
equally to other conditional compilation options you may have to add to
support your platform.
Bye, Jojo