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|    Sampsa Laine to Vince Coen    |
|    Re: Compile fails on "weird" platforms    |
|    20 Dec 15 17:49:00    |
      -=> Vince Coen wrote to Sampsa Laine <=-               VC> @MSGID: <5676E6EC.1627.mbse@b4bbs.com>        VC> Hello Sampsa!               VC> Friday December 11 2015 17:10, you wrote to All:               > Guys,               > There are a couple of #ifdef's in some files that simply define        > strings for displaying the architecture and OS the MBSE instance        > is running on.               > These are sort of a pain because I have to go and manually hack        > the files to remove the #ifdefs and just define the string myself        > (running Debian/s390x on an emulated IBM z/Series Mainframe - yes,        > I'm crazy).               > Anyway, could I propose a change to these platform detecting        > #ifdefs that they fail with a warning about an unsupported/unknown        > platform but continue compiling.               > I've had no problems getting MBSE compiled and up and running on        > Debian s/390x but I have to hack the code to return a string of my        > own choosing in place of the ifdefs..                      VC> What files are causing the problem and confirm what version of mbse you        VC> are now running ?              My Debian/390x is down right now because it's really unstable on Hercules       and the latest crash corrupted the disk images beyond repair.              Once I've rebuilt a SuSE (or something) z/Series box I'll get back to you.              Sampsa              ... MultiMail, the new multi-platform, multi-format offline reader!       --- MultiMail/Darwin v0.49        * Origin: B4BBS = London = b4bbs.sampsa.com 2:250/7 (2:250/7)    |
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