Minutes from July 16 Release Wranglers call

Torrey Lyons torrey at mrcla.com
Fri Jul 16 16:29:18 PDT 2004


At 12:56 AM +0200 7/17/04, Roland Mainz wrote:
>Torrey Lyons wrote:
>>
>>  Some comments on Mac OS X support:
>>
>>  1. If the next release is going to be a major release and not a
>>  stability X11R6.7.1 release,
>>  I was planning to pull all the recent
>>  XDarwin work over from the XFree86 tree. Any objections to merging
>>  this into HEAD? (I see from a comment by Roland Mainz that Mac OS X
>>  does not currently work.)
>
>MacOSX is currently horked at various points. One of them is my fault
>since the tree now assumes that an OS provides |strtok_r| (I thought
>that any modern OS has |strtok_r| but it seems I was wrong with that). I
>can provide an own version of |strtok_r| on demand (file bug into
>bugzilla, assign to me... :) ...

I see strtok_r() on Jaguar and Panther. Mac OS X 10.1 and earlier 
were missing strtok_r() but that's ancient history now :-). Actually 
we try to support XDarwin on Mac OS X 10.1 and newer so it would be 
nice to have some work around for strtok_r() where needed.

--Torrey


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