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Re: Include Problem

From: "Bill C. Riemers" <docbill at freeshell dot org>
To: "Brian Ford" <ford at vss dot fsi dot com>, Martin Bündgens <mb at insidetheweb dot de>
Cc: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 16:07:00 -0500
Subject: Re: Include Problem
References: <5.2.0.9.0.20031114170846.03463aa0@wheresmymailserver.com> <009101c3ab0b$cb5b3cd0$ae709250@mb> <Pine.GSO.4.56.0311141649370.9584@eos>

> It doesn't.  Cygwin != Linux.
>
> Also, AFAIK, if a Linux application is directly including linux/*, it is
> broken.

Not necessarily.  Not every application is designed to work across different
platforms.  Sometimes a programmer may choice to sacrifice portability for
some other advantage.  In fact in some cases they may include system include
files like thos in "linux/*" just prevent people from compiling on an
unsupported platform.

                                        Bill



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