[Fontconfig] Porting, binary files, and releases

[Patrick Lam]

Doodle wrote:
> Patrick Lam wrote:
> 
>>> The GLib mmap wrapper just does
>>>
>>> #ifndef _O_BINARY
>>> #define _O_BINARY 0
>>> #endif
>>
>> This doesn't quite get us any further ahead; I'd imagine that some
>> config-fu would be involved in doing the right thing on a variety of
>> platforms.
> 
> Ops, I thought that O_BINARY is a common, standard thing, but now I see
> that it's only for CRLF'd platforms.
> 
> After a quick research, it seems to me that the value of O_BINARY is
> platform specific (and even compiler specific), and in my case (InnoTek
> GCC on OS/2) it's defined to be 0x00020000. However it should be simply
> skipped for platforms where there is no such thing as text and binary
> file, so why not define it to be 0 in cases where it's not defined?

I thought so too, and then I tried to compile with O_BINARY.  Nope!  I
missed 'ifndef' in the above; I guess it works.

pat