[Xastir-Dev] Found the sighandler_t problem

[Jerry Chamberlin]

GREAT JAck!
OH Blessed one.
I have 6 things you need to do..

1. Make a public speach denouncing M$ 
2. Submit you existing M$ machines to the inspectors for mass destruction
3. Destroy all old copies of DOS
4. Format all drives not in NFS Format.
6. I forgot what 5 was.


On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Jack Twilley wrote:

> The sighandler_t problem that has been plaguing me has finally been
> found.
> 
> I don't want to know who wrote it or when it was written, but the code
> that caused all the trouble was this:
> 
> #ifdef __linux__
>     sighandler_t previous_loc;
> #else   // __linux__
>     void *previous_loc;
> #endif  // __linux__
> 
> It's going to be replaced with something like this:
> 
> #ifdef RETSIGTYPE
>     RETSIGTYPE previous_loc;
> #else
> #error RETSIGTYPE not defined
> #endif
> 
> This is part of my massive configure changes and *not* part of
> anything being committed any time soon.  Once this works flawlessly on
> the machines where it doesn't yet work, I'll post again about
> committing it.  I regularly update the patched files, so if you're
> participating in the tests, download a new file from my server every
> day or two.
> 
> Thanks again!
> 
> Jack.
> -- 
> Jack Twilley
> jmt at twilley dot org
> http colon slash slash www dot twilley dot org slash tilde jmt slash
> 

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