[m-users.] My contribution

[Volker Wysk]

Hi

Am Dienstag, 26. März 2019, 11:36:25 CET schrieb Peter Wang:
> On Tue, 26 Mar 2019 08:28:06 +0100, Volker Wysk <post at volker-wysk.de> wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > I've contributed some code. See my last mail of Sunday (MET) (the one with
> > an attachment). Will this be accepted?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Yes, but not as-is. There have been changes to the posix.exec.m file in
> git, so your additions need to be made against the updated file.
> If you wish to submit a new file, please try to match the existing code
> style. Otherwise, I'll probably make the changes sometime.
> 
> We can't add execvpe() as it is a GNU extension, and would break the
> module compiling on MacOS, FreeBSD, older glibc systems, musl, etc.
> 
> Peter

I've cloned the latest GIT repository using

    git clone https://github.com/Mercury-Language/mercury.git

and in the extras/posix directory, there posix_workarounds.[ch] files are 
missing. The posix library doesn't build.

I'll try the lastest r.o.t.d. now.

Bye
Volker