Moving checks out of s&m files (was Re: [AC21.5Q21.4] xemacs-21.5: fix build on FreeBSD)
Malcolm Purvis <[email protected]> Sun, 27 Feb 2005 23:39:06 +1100
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[Moved to -design] >>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen J Turnbull <[email protected]> writes: Stephen> Also, note that patches to *fix* the s&m files are deprecated. We Stephen> strongly prefer patches to _move_ checks out of the s&m files [...] What's the preferred way of doing this for things like enabling the use of system malloc for a given architecture? XEmacs on PPC64 Linux crashes without system malloc and I'd like to enable it permanently. Is burying this info in a sea of case statements within configure.[in|ac] any better that using s&m files? Malcolm -- Malcolm Purvis <[email protected]>