Hello! > While nowadays Linux is often the first OS ported to a new architecture > and is cross compiled on another Linux system, I think portable code is > a virtue on its own, _unless_ it requires having compatibility wrappers > for half of the library calls and whatnot. It's hard to draw a line, but > it'd say patches to enable build on Cygwin are OK (since it emulates a > POSIX system quite well), whereas patches to enable build on native > Windows, dealing with pathname lookup differences, .exe suffixes, adding > a libc wrapper, etc, would be frowned upon. > > Would you agree to such loosely defined criteria? I absolutely agree. Kind regards, Pavel Fedin Expert Engineer Samsung Electronics Research center Russia -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
