Re: more details, and diff for ia64
On 17-Jan-01, 17:13 (CST), Gordon Sadler <gbsadler1@lcisp.com> wrote:
>
> No expert here, but I seemed to have read way too much source code
> lately. IIRC string.h/strings.h needs to be determined via a
> configuration option to be fully portable.
>
You've probably been reading too much very old source code. The ISO C
standard (and thus POSIX, by reference) is <string.h>, and has been
1989. While it's clearly up to the dpkg developers, I don't see a need
for dpkg to support ancient systems.
Steve
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