Re: [MiNT] Add wchar.h to MiNTlib

[Peter Slegg <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk>]

On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:00:36 , Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 11:42 +0100, Frank Naumann wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > > New packages look for wchar.h and try and wrap the include. coreutils
> > > and findutils are both packages that try to do this.
> > >
> > > Without modifying their code they can't build out of the box.
> >
> > And this is not a failure of an incorrect autoconf (configure) script? Or
> > depend the code of the coreutils on the existance of this header? I'm just
> > curious ...
>
> Applications can be modified to fix this type of thing, and I'm sure in
> these cases we can add #ifdef __MINT__ / #endif to the code to fix this
> up.
>
> I'm trying to avoid having to patch applications and fix MiNTlib where
> possible. That's my goal anyway.
>
That seems to make sense to me. At least people won't have to patch
every new release if the #ifdef for Mint doesn't get into the
official sources.

Regards,

Peter