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Message-Id: <200706071144.50242.vapier@gentoo.org>
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 11:44:49 -0400
From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>
To: "Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@...il.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch/rfc] implement memmem() locally in kallsyms.c
On Thursday 07 June 2007, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> On 07/06/07, Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org> wrote:
> > This patch basically copies the gnulib version of memmem() into
> > scripts/kallsyms.c. While a useful function, it isn't in POSIX so some
> > systems (like Darwin) choose to omit it. How do others feel ?
>
> Do people actually build Linux kernels on Darwin & *BSD systems? If
> they do then why?
in the embedded world, yes ... everything is being cross-compiled and
deployed on different hardware anyways, so the build env shouldnt matter
> What I'm getting at is; why do we care if it will build there?
that was the [rfc] part of the e-mail ... i got enough complaints from people
OS X people to put together the patch
-mike
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