lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2007]   [Jun]   [7]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
From
SubjectRe: [patch/rfc] implement memmem() locally in kallsyms.c
Date
On Thursday 07 June 2007, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> On 07/06/07, Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > This patch basically copies the gnulib version of memmem() into
> > scripts/kallsyms.c. While a useful function, it isn't in POSIX so some
> > systems (like Darwin) choose to omit it. How do others feel ?
>
> Do people actually build Linux kernels on Darwin & *BSD systems? If
> they do then why?

in the embedded world, yes ... everything is being cross-compiled and
deployed on different hardware anyways, so the build env shouldnt matter

> What I'm getting at is; why do we care if it will build there?

that was the [rfc] part of the e-mail ... i got enough complaints from people
OS X people to put together the patch
-mike
[unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature]
\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2007-06-07 17:47    [W:0.037 / U:0.276 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site