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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