[Pkg-samba-maint] [obnox at samba.org: about the non-linux ports patch from bug #266693]

[Robert Millan]

On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 08:14:52PM +0200, Michael Adam wrote:
> > > > The patch has several hunks like this:
> > > > 
> > > > -    *linux*)
> > > > +    linux*-gnu* | gnu* | k*bsd*-gnu)
> > > > 
> > > > This has the potential disadvantage that it may make
> > > > less systems match. I'd change this to the following:
> > > > 
> > > > -    *linux*)
> > > > +    *linux* | gnu* | k*bsd*-gnu)
> > > > 
> > > > Or are there good reasons for being more restrictive?
> > 
> > I don't remember any reason for that.
> 
> OK, so in order to reduce side effects, I will use
> the second form.

I think I remember.  It was done under the assumption that you would
want to exclude things like "linux-aout", "linux-uclibc", etc from
Glibc-specific checks.

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