Paul Eggert wrote: > To simplify this sort of thing in the future, I suggest that Gnulib drop > support for IRIX
The simplification would not have been big: IRIX is just one among 12 platforms. The issue here was that we attempted to have a unique code for all 12 platforms, and this requires a systematic approach and a bit of constraint solving. This kind of constraint solving does not scale: it may not work with 50 platforms. The alternative would be to split the set of platforms into groups (say, glibc platforms, BSD platforms, Solaris, etc.) and use a #if branch for each platform group. The result would be longer code, but way more maintainable. Bruno
