Re: Problem compiling font-mgr.c
Ar an t-ochtú lá is fiche de mí na Samhain, scríobh Mats Lidell:
>>>>> Aidan Kehoe <kehoea(a)parhasard.net>
writes:
Aidan> I'm happy enough to just give up in configure.ac if both
Aidan> --with-system-malloc and --without-pdump are specified on
Aidan> FreeBSD on AMD64.
OK. So the current configuration doesn't make sense on FreeBSD on
AMD64 or is just poorly supported at the moment?
It’s slightly more poorly supported than, say, Linux, but that doesn’t
matter in this case. There are three options to solve the problem for the
user:
i) Annoy the XEmacs people to fix the bug
ii) Don’t use --with-system-malloc
iii) Use --with-pdump
ii) and iii) are both perfectly reasonable. i) is worth doing, but we are
unlikely to get to it soon. (And it might even be a FreeBSD bug, where we
would have no control over when a fix goes in.)
The four configurations in use are designed to be good at filtering
out problems. So I would like to keep that set of configurations over
as many platforms as possible both for making it easier to administer,
for filtering out as many problems as possible and to compare builds
on different platforms.
But if a configuration does not make sense or maybe, makes sense, but
is not likely to get fixed in the near future, or ever, we might have
to reconsider.
On the other hand I guess the portable dumper is good thing and ought
to go in all the standard configurations (or even be chosen by default
by configure?) Comments?
I agree with this.
--
“Apart from the nine-banded armadillo, man is the only natural host of
Mycobacterium leprae, although it can be grown in the footpads of mice.”
-- Kumar & Clark, Clinical Medicine, summarising improbable leprosy research
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