Subject: Re: building after 1.4
To: None <perry@piermont.com>
From: Joel Reicher <joel@panacea.null.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 05/14/1999 11:15:53
> 
> Matt Knopp <mhat@fundsxpress.com> writes:
> > So far I've only experinced this with kerberos5 and festival 1.3.1, but 
> > since atleast 1.4-Beta Ive started getting errors "depreciated symbol 
> > unix is no longer predefined" , which causes builds to do the wrong 
> > thing. I can get around the problem by just adding '-D unix' to the build
> > processes. I am mainly curious if knows why this might be. 
> 
> Because some people decided a while back that, since the C standard
> technically prohibits ANY predefined variables that don't begin with
> an underscore (_), that "unix" could not be predefined. Its a fairly

Would there be anything wrong with predefining __unix__ in that case? I've
seen some code that uses that.

	- Joel