[pacman-dev] libdownload portability

[Sebastian Nowicki]

On 10/04/2008, at 2:33 PM, Aaron Griffin wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 12:32 AM, Sebastian Nowicki  
> <xilonmu at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm looking into making a package manager for Mac OSX and I'd like  
>> to use
>> libalpm but currently it doesn't compile. I haven't tested this on  
>> any real
>> BSD systems but OS X is based on BSD so I assume it also doesn't  
>> compile on
>> BSD either. libdownload fails to co,pile because it can't find  
>> libio.h,
>> which appears to be a part of glibc on Linux. I know Aaron forked  
>> libfetch
>> and added some features, so I'm wondering if it's possible to port  
>> those
>> features back to BSD. If it is, I'd be willing to look into doing  
>> so, but
>> since my experience with C is low I don't know how that will work  
>> out.
>
> Dan has an OSX branch somewhere that makes everything compile and  
> work there.
>
> The "features" added to libdownload are minimal. I had contacted the
> libfetch maintainer in the past and got no response. Either way, it's
> not as huge deal.
>
> If/when I provide a fetch.h compatibility header for libdownload, it'd
> make all this easier.
>
> _______________________________________________
> pacman-dev mailing list
> pacman-dev at archlinux.org
> http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/pacman-dev

Awesome, glad to hear it. I'll look into that OSX branch.