[Monotone-devel] Re: Autobuild scripts for Unix?

[Bruce Stephens]

"Zack Weinberg" <address@hidden> writes:

> On 9/27/06, Bruce Stephens <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> The only thing I'd recommend is to get rid of the dependency on
>> strsignal: that's not portable.
>
> Rrgh.  I thought it was in Unix95, but apparently it's only for glibc
> and recent Solaris.  I poked a little at bringing over the
> public-domain implementation from gcc's libiberty, but it needs more
> work to be usable than I have time for right now. :(

The manpage says BSDs, too, I think.

> I don't want to give it up - the one place it's used, it would be a
> fairly bad UI regression to stop identifying the signal to the user.

Well, could check for it and provide some backup that does a switch on
the signals that are in suitable standards?

(I think the zsh configure process does something wackier, parsing
errno.h or something.  That seems OTT, though?)