Comments on pmake diffs for building on Linux

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <20080304160006.GB95950 at kobe.laptop>
            Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at ceid.upatras.gr> writes:
: On 2008-03-04 08:52, "M. Warner Losh" <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
: > In message: <20080304154542.GC61036 at kobe.laptop>
: >             Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at ceid.upatras.gr> writes:
: > : Nice!  Thank you Robert.  Can I copy parts of this and add them to the
: > : autoconf glue I'm adding now?
: > :
: > : To test just cpp(1) stuff, autoconf supports AC_PREPROC_IFELSE() too,
: > : which I used when I tried writing a check for __FBSDID():
: > :
: > :   AC_PREPROC_IFELSE(
: > :     [AC_LANG_PROGRAM([[#include <sys/cdefs.h>
: > :   #ifndef __FBSDID
: > :   #error No __FBSDID definition.
: > :   #endif]])],
: > :     [AC_DEFINE([HAVE_FBSDID_MACRO], [1],
: > :        [Define to 1 if you have the __FBSDID macro.])])
: > :
: > : I can probably improve a bit the queue.h check using what you wrote
: > : above and AC_PREPROC_IFELSE().
: >
: > The alternative to uglifying the make sources with #ifdefs would be to
: > just always use the compat includes when building...  No autoconf
: > needed, and minimal changes to the base make, if any.
: 
: True.  I'll try to keep #ifdef changes down to the absolutely _minimum_
: amount of changes.  It will make repeated merged from usr.bin/make much
: easier, for example :)

Lemme put together a package for all this and see how few ifdefs I can
do it with...

Warner