Re: gEDA-user: Building geda under Windows

[Sascha Silbe <sascha-ml-geda-user@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 01:01:08AM -0500, Al Davis wrote:

> When this happens it is usually because the author has no way of 
> knowing there is a problem.
Usually it's more a problem of choosing inappropriate tools (e.g. using 
a low-level language like C for an application that's neither low-level 
itself nor especially performance critical) or relying on GNU-specific 
behaviour and options.
As a start, people should put the POSIX man-pages first in MANSECT so 
they only see the options that work on any POSIX platform. It's really 
invaluable that they're available now.

> When you fix it, please send the info to the maintainer of the 
> package.
That's what I always do, of course (did it three times yesterday :) ). 
No use in fixing it only for myself, since I'd need to backport the 
patches on each upstream update. Not to speak of the other users that 
now don't need to fix it themselves, so I might even have done someone a 
favour.

CU Sascha

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