[Fwd: [Bug 817] New: DMX includes <linux/input.h> on non-Linux platforms]

[Alan Hourihane]

On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 01:39:05PM -0400, Kevin E Martin wrote:
> Alan,
> 
> Thanks for the report.  The DMX code was written using Linux and was
> ported to SGIs, but it has not yet been ported to other OSs.  I'm
> hopeful that it will be a relatively easy job to do that for Solaris,
> HPUX, etc.  Perhaps a general solution would be to disable building DMX
> on those platforms that have not yet been tested/ported.  What do you
> think?  The downside, of course, is that it doesn't receive the testing
> on those OSs but avoids the short-term compilation problems.

I think that it should be disabled on those OSs that haven't had DMX
ported to them.

I'm sure people with interest in DMX will pick up the porting exercise
regardless.

Alan.