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Re: "conformance" vs. compatibility
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Jim Meyering |
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Re: "conformance" vs. compatibility |
Date: |
Wed, 05 Nov 2003 04:37:13 +0100 |
Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> address@hidden (Paul Jarc) writes:
>> I think it ought to be possible for the user building coreutils to say
>> what version of conformance they want - say, with a ./configure
>> argument - and this should override the unistd.h definition.
>
> That might be reasonable. The coreutils maintainer should have the
> final say about this, though. He's probably tired of the whole
> subject, though, so I suspect he won't make this change unless someone
> proposes a nice patch to do it.
That's accurate. Thanks for writing so much on this thread.
Re: "conformance" vs. compatibility, Paul Eggert, 2003/11/03
Re: "conformance" vs. compatibility, Jim Meyering, 2003/11/04