Hi Paul,
Paul Smith <psm...@gnu.org> writes:
> Hi all;
>
> As far as I know, OS/2 has been obsolete and out of support for 20+
> years.
>
> Does anyone know if there are any OS/2 users still out there? I can't
> remember the last time I received a bug report or patch for GNU Make
> from anyone on OS/2. While much of the OS/2 support is the same as
> either DOS or Windows, there are some places (specifically invoking
> sub-processes using spawnvpe() for example) that are OS/2-specific.
> I'd really like to simplify the preprocessor spaghetti code in general,
> and these parts of job.c in particular.
I don't know much about OS/2, but I remember Gnulib getting some
occasional patches for it. Here is the last one for example:
commit 39ed3d9cb68418781ed334c8461aedbe2a9af95a
Author: KO Myung-Hun <kom...@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Mon Feb 10 20:35:00 2025 +0900
Commit: Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org>
CommitDate: Mon Feb 10 16:29:11 2025 +0100
popen: Set gl_cv_func_popen_works to "guessing no" on OS/2.
* doc/posix-functions/popen.texi: List OS/2 kLIBC case.
* m4/popen.m4 (gl_FUNC_POPEN): Set gl_cv_func_popen_works to
"guessing no" on OS/2.
Copyright-paperwork-exempt: Yes
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