In <199806221802.LAA01035@random.teraflop.com> Ross Harvey <ross@teraflop.com> writes:

>> From: Alistair Crooks <azcb0@amdahl.com>
>> ...
>> Can we at least start to use __unix__, please? I do not want to have to
>> try to explain to imake, for example, to try to compile unix.c, rather
>> than 1.c. imake is borken, you say? Right. But too much depends on it to
>> change its behaviour. And, just for the record, I loathe imake with a
>> vengeance.
>> ...
>
>Have you ever actually seen this problem?  Or is this just hypothetical?

Yes. When I was porting VNC (which uses imake), I put the unix sources
in a directory called unix (and the windows sources in a directory called
windows). I was quite puzzled when the generated makefiles used strange
pathnames with /1/ in the middle. Not funny.

>Because, if it's hypothetical, I think it's also a "cannot happen".
>
>You see, apparently every system except NetBSD predefines unix == 1.

NetBSD apparently does too. At least in 1.2.*. It took me a long time before
it dawned what the problem was.

-Olaf.
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