[haiku-development] Re: R1a4 -- possible?
- From: "Humdinger" <humdingerb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:20:33 +0100
Hi!
On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:28:31 +0100 Ingo Weinhold wrote:
> The solution to that is to
> wrap all functionality used and symbolically map the wrappers to the
> names
> of the expected functionality (via macros, the FS shell uses a very
> similar
> approach). Essentially this cleanly separates the Haiku build
> environment
> from the build platform environment, from which the build on other
> platform
> benefits as well, as it allows to get rid of several hacks and work-
> arounds
> and also allows for dealing more easily with build platform quirks
> (like
> missing POSIX functionality, which is currently an issue on MacOS X).
>
> As I wrote before, this is a lot of tedious work, since wrappers for
> dozens
> of POSIX and Haiku headers and their functionality need to be
> written.
I guess that all needs deep knowledge and isn't a suitable task for
GSoC?
Regards,
Humdinger
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