Update included popt to version 1.7

jw schultz jw at pegasys.ws
Fri May 16 10:09:50 EST 2003


On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 02:42:24PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote:
> [Oops, accidentally pressed Ctrl+Enter last time]
> 
> jw schultz wrote:
> > OK.  With that widespread a usage it cannot not be in the
> > major dists and is confirmed to be in cygwin.  Lets drop
> > popt source.  One less bit of foreign code to keep in sync
> > and port patches for.
> 
> Rsync's popt has local modifications:
> 
> 2003-01-18 19:00  wayned
> 
>  * popt.c (1.5): Define DBL_EPSILON if it doesn't exist.
> 
> 2003-01-14 21:37  dwd
> 
>  * popthelp.c (1.3): Don't use the return value from sprintf because
>  it doesn't work on Sunos4.
> 
> 2003-01-12 21:49  wayned
> 
>  * system.h (1.3): Use the old kludge of using malloc() if alloca()
>  is missing.
> 
> 2003-01-11 19:01  dwd
> 
>  * poptconfig.c (1.4): Cast the return from alloca to work better on
>  UNICOS.
> 
> 2003-01-11 14:39  dwd
> 
>  * popt.c (1.4): Cast the return of alloca to remove a fatal error
>  on Cray UNICOS.
> 
> 
> Granted, these are mainly compilation fixes for popt itself, but they
> presumably indicate systems which often do not have a system popt. Not that
> I've ever seen any of these fairly obscure systems, but they should at least
> be mentioned in the release notes.

I'd have no problem our hosting a patch for popt to deal
with any of these that actually affect rsync.  That is until
they get fixed.


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