Hello Magnus,

> What I suggest is that you test for the LINUX capabilities in the 
> configure script. By this way will the software be much more portable to 
> other operating systems.

  You apparently misunderstood what Ryan said; this is exactly what
the patch does.  Just run ./configure and if you're on a linux system
you get -D__LINUX__ included in your compile.


> My belief is that the operating system is of none importance. It's the 
> library and system calls that the application depend upon.

  In this case it's a requisite .h file gets included, but it's
follows the same train of thought.

Jesse


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