Re: [bryan.richter-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w-XMD5yJDbdMReXY1tMh2IBg@public.gmane.org: Fwd: Compile error under cygwin]

(Bah, berlios or something is taking forever to send the mail back
to me, although gmane already has it. But the nntp interface/slrn
don't handle attachments well, so I'll just copy-paste quote.)

> The two problems with compiling Ion are
> (1) Windows does not have getloadavg, and with the way
> libextl_mkexports works, the only quick way to avoid this problem is
> to obliterate all references to getloadavg. This means deleting (not
> commenting out!) a couple functions and the whole file
> utils/ion-statusd/statusd_load.lua.

There's no real need to alter statusd_load, but cfg_statusbar should
perhaps be altered to not include the load meter. It gets a bit too
complicated to to properly. The altogether too hacky loadavg export
(some more general Lua lib should really provide all this!) can in
any case be easily #ifdef'd out. (DEFINES += -DCF_NO_GETLOADAVG)

> (2) Cygwin's gcc appends ".exe" to executables, which means Makefiles
> must be modified accordingly.

That's just utterly and totally brain-dead. If I say '-o ion3', 
then that's where the output should go, even if the rest of the
system can't handle the lack of a lame extension. I wonder if 
they have a modified variant of install-sh or so, that can 
handle the way they've fucked up gcc? The latest release actually
introduced the INSTALLBIN variable to take care of passing
the -s(trip) flag to install-sh nicely based on configuration.
Maybe gmake provides some macros that could be used to redefine
this to append the .exe idiocy to the source file.

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