* Bruno Haible wrote on Fri, May 19, 2006 at 03:07:01PM CEST:
> Paul Eggert wrote:
> >
> > Would WOE32_NATIVE be a better name?
>
> Many people believe code should be neutral.
FWIW, I agree. After all, POSIX_ME_HARDER was dropped, too.
I removed occurrences of M$VC and *BSD from the Libtool sources,
after being notified about them: I want to be able to work with
people, not against them. And the people that take issue with
these are _not_ equal to the system or compiler you may have
issues with, if any.
Speaking of which, can we please change this, now that I noticed it?
Some people have an issue with this notation, and I don't want to see
this in the Autoconf tarball.
Cheers,
Ralf
2006-05-19 Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* doc/standards.texi (System Portability): Spell out `free BSD
variants', instead of using the term `*BSD'.
Index: doc/standards.texi
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RCS file: /cvsroot/gnulib/gnulib/doc/standards.texi,v
retrieving revision 1.15
diff -u -r1.15 standards.texi
--- doc/standards.texi 8 May 2006 13:22:22 -0000 1.15
+++ doc/standards.texi 19 May 2006 13:30:46 -0000
@@ -2654,11 +2654,11 @@
are the form of GNU that is popular.
Beyond that, it is good to support the other free operating systems
-(*BSD), and it is nice to support other Unix-like systems if you want
-to. Supporting a variety of Unix-like systems is desirable, although
-not paramount. It is usually not too hard, so you may as well do it.
-But you don't have to consider it an obligation, if it does turn out to
-be hard.
+(for example free BSD variants), and it is nice to support other
+Unix-like systems if you want to. Supporting a variety of Unix-like
+systems is desirable, although not paramount. It is usually not too
+hard, so you may as well do it. But you don't have to consider it an
+obligation, if it does turn out to be hard.
@pindex autoconf
The easiest way to achieve portability to most Unix-like systems is to
