Re: New member says hello

In <26876(dot)1101578726(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, on 11/27/04
at 01:05 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> said:

>lsunley(at)mb(dot)sympatico(dot)ca writes:
>> at 09:50 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> said:
>>> If you're hoping to get this into 8.0, it had better arrive soon and be a
>>> very small patch ...

>> It may have to be for 8.0.1 there are a lot of changes to the makefiles to
>> accomodate the if(($portname), ibmos2) stuff and the src/port/ibmos2 code

>More like 8.1, then. A not-previously-supported port is going to be seen
>as a new feature, not a bug fix, especially if the changes are less than
>trivial.

Sounds good to me...

The makefile changes are more than trivial (18 new and/or changed files)
and the build environment would have to be tested on supported platforms
to make sure nothing got broken. There are a few changes to the C code
(28 new and/or changed files) and H files (9 new and/or changed files). So
far.... :-)

>> BTW - has anyone else noticed that there are a number of places where
>> there is a test for HAVE_OPTRESET instead of HAVE_INT_OPTRESET?

>Good catch ... that's definitely broken.

Sometimes doing a new port finds problems that are not noticed otherwise.

I'll just forge ahead with the OS/2 stuff and get patches ready for a post
8.0.0 GA

Lorne

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