[PATCH] Fix compile on NetBSD-current for popcount

[Marc Lehmann]

On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 11:14:14AM +0100, Roy Marples <roy at marples.name> wrote:
>> comparing a netbsd pseudostandard and posix is indeed a weird comparison
>> (you vastly overestimate the importance of netbsd vs. an extremely widely
>> implemented industry standard), but you missed the crucial difference:
>> getline is NOT visible in the standard header file until it is requested
>> to show up.
>
> It is visible by default the latest glibc I think.

You ignore the point I made: netbsd is not posix (no pun intended) and
simply doesn't have the power to force it's api as standard on the rest of
the world easily (GNU/Linux has vastly more power, but it sitll is nothing
compared to, say, posix).

But it is obvious that you don't care - that's the real problem.

>> and getline did not conflict with programs not asking for extensions
>> explicitly, which urxvt does not do on netbsd.
>
> It does now with the latest glibc.
> It's also visible by default in NetBSD-current

And it is not causing a problem here.

>> so it's fixed and the workaround in urxvt is not needed anymore(?)
>
> No, rxvt needs to be fixed.

First of all, I don't control rxvt, second, I don't control netbsd, I only
control rxvt-unicode, and there is no bug in rxvt-unicode, so it cannot
fix anything.

> You'll have to argue with someone else (joerg at netbsd.org) if you want it  
> "fixed" in NetBSD

The quotes are entirely inappropriate - it's quite assy of you to claim that
something needs fixing in urxvt when the problem is only in netbsd.

You could at least play nice and acknowledge that the problem is in
netbsd, even if netbsd doesn't care to fix it and requires other
applications to work around it.

This attitude is what makes people annoyed about netbsd - there is nothing
that needs fixing in urxvt, and you quite well know that, even if for
publicity reasons you act as if there were a problem.

Why you think thats appropriate, nobody knows, but it doesn't pay off.

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