[PATCH:xbiff 0/2] v2 of checks for mailbox directory

Dan Nicholson dbn.lists at gmail.com
Sat Jan 8 08:33:41 PST 2011


On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Alan Coopersmith
<alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> wrote:
> This isolates the two most useful parts of the previous patch (from
> back in October, almost forgotten) into individual patches -
> generalizing <paths.h> to all OS'es, now that it's available on more
> than just BSD, and allowing builders to specify a path specific to
> their system.
>
> As Dan suggested, the builder override is changed from AC_ARG_VAR to
> AC_ARG_WITH for easier use.
>
> This set doesn't include the third part, moving the fallbacks from #ifdefs
> in the header to autoconf checks - that's not as useful, and would force
> cross-compilers to use the --with-mailspool-directory flag.   If someone
> else wants to put in the effort to do that well, go ahead.  At least these
> two should only make things better for some systems, and worse for none.
>
> Alan Coopersmith (2):
>  Use <paths.h> and _PATH_MAILDIR to find mailboxes if present
>  Add --with-mailbox-directory=PATH option to configure
>
>  MailboxP.h   |   26 ++++++++++++++------------
>  configure.ac |   18 ++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

For both patches,

Reviewed-by: Dan Nicholson <dbn.lists at gmail.com>


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