Subject: Re: linux includes
To: Joe Reed <jnr@cwru.edu>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 08/10/2003 20:52:56
On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 12:39:20PM -0400, Joe Reed wrote:
> hi,
> 
> i'm trying to package k3b, a kde/qt based cd burning frontend.  however, a few 
> files include the following files:
> 	linux/version.h
> 	linux/../scsi/scsi.h
> 	linux/cdrom.h
> 	linux/major.h
> 	linux/limits.h
> 
> do any of our emul packages have versions of these files to include?

Even if they did it would be a bad idea to use them, because their definition
may be invalid for NetBSD.

>  is there 
> some other solution to this issue other than looking for the necessary 
> functions in NetBSD files and patching?
> 
> or, is the preferred method really to just patch the individual files?

Yes, patch the individual files. The software was written for linux, it needs
to be ported.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
     NetBSD: 24 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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