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

[Roland Mainz]

Egbert Eich wrote:
>  > 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.
> 
> We will always run into those problems and there is not much what
> can be done about it. We can only ask developers to use as much
> discretion as possible but it is not possible to completely rule
> out that other OSes break.
> Having tinderboxes will help developers to identify such problems in
> a timely manner and allow them to fix them - in some cases with the
> help of the OS maintainer.

Unfortunately there are no Solaris/SPARC and Solaris/x86 tinderbox
machines yet...

Alan:
Is it possible to hookup an old SPARC (e.g. Ultra5/333MHz etc.) for that
job ?

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Bye,
Roland

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