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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." <phajdan.jr@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in media-sound/mpfc/files: mpfc-1.3.7-INT_MAX.patch
Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2010 23:40:21
Message-Id: 201011091840.01250.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in media-sound/mpfc/files: mpfc-1.3.7-INT_MAX.patch by "Paweł Hajdan
1 On Thursday, October 28, 2010 13:51:05 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote:
2 > On 10/28/10 7:42 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
3 > >>>>> Il giorno lun, 25/10/2010 alle 18.50 -0300, Alexis Ballier ha scritto:
4 > >>>>>> Am I missing something obvious or is it just hiding a bug in the
5 > >>>>>> linux
6 > >>>>>> headers? I see no usage of INT_MAX in the patched .c file...
7 > >
8 > > the maintainer already has done his due diligence and reviewed the
9 > > field. at this point, it is *you* who disagrees with the situation
10 > > thus it is *you* who needs to resolve *your* complaint.
11 >
12 > Just curious: what are the technical reasons for that?
13 >
14 > My understanding is that one header depends on another for proper
15 > compilation but doesn't #include it. Is that correct?
16
17 the Linux guys are very averse to Linux headers pulling in things from the C
18 library even though it probably makes sense to do so
19 -mike

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