Some portability issues

[Donnie Berkholz]

Kean Johnston wrote:
> The first issue seems to be a remnant of the old Imake world.
> Excluding files found in xorg-cf-files, a casual grep through
> the sources reveal 204 files that sill use SVR4 or SYSV as
> conditionals. That figure has a bit of noise in it, as my tree
> I am building includes xterm, which includes 13 files thus
> affected. The way I see it, there are two ways to fix this.
> The first would be to add a new standard XORG configure macro
> for system-specific defines. This may also make it easier to
> revive other platform ports. 

A big part of the autotools philosophy is testing for features, not
systems. Please try to stick to that whenever possible. I know we've
already got a bunch of platform-specific code added (e.g. if uname ==
solaris, then do this), and I'm not very excited about that.

Thanks,
Donnie

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