Subject: Re: port-alpha/5586: port alpha does not define "unix"
To: None <perry@piermont.com>
From: Tim Rightnour <root@garbled.net>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 06/15/1998 15:54:13
On 15-Jun-98 Perry E. Metzger spoke unto us all:
# 
# Tim Rightnour writes:
# > and I will begin submitting patches to them to define unix in the
# makefiles. 
# 
# It would probably be better to submit patches to modify the packages
# themselves.

I can understand, that polluting the user namespace is a "bad thing", and I can
forsee times when I would really not like that.  

I assume you mean by this (which is what I meant by the above)  To send a patch
that defines "-Dunix" in "each pkgs' private makefile, that comes with the
source"

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