Re: [Dev-luatex] Rationale for using putenv?

Hi, David Kastrup wrote:

Arthur Reutenauer writes:

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Rationale: it is not more portable, because win32 doesn't have it (and Solaris is unknown). No, Solaris doesn't have it either.

That's the great thing about standards. People can agree on the best thing to do, and then ignore it.

Sorry, I just assumed from reading the Posix manpage for that functionality that one could expect setenv but not putenv in general.

Maybe there are strict Posix systems without XSI (?) around, in which case one would need to use setenv.

That is true, we just haven't found one yet.

Perhaps a case for autoconf?

I much prefer to have a target-specific compiles via the makefile, like lua itself does. Autotools is a disaster unless you are willing to ignore all commercial platforms (including quite a few unices). But I have not gotten around to setting that up, so for the moment I simply write adhoc code with a few ifdefs. Taco