On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 09:41 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Svante Signell, le Thu 03 Mar 2011 08:22:06 +0100, a écrit : > > Q: Should I mention the patch in bug 602312, needed for a successful > > build from source? > > No need to, that's a separate bug.
Sorry, too late, bug report just submitted. Hopefully a minor issue. > > C: I see that you used #ifdefs in the source code, instead of trying to > > find one way of writing the code. I was communicating with upstream of > > another package, and he did not like this kind of constructs, it was > > just cluttering the code. Any recommendations? > > One can't avoid ifdefs if one wants to use the extension > realpath(foo,NULL). If one wants to avoid both PATH_MAX and ifdef, you'd > need an allocation loop etc., which I think clutters the code even more. Yes, I agree. Thank you for helping be with this, I've learned a lot. Still much more to learn to be really able to contribute.
