GNU bug report logs - #10155
23.3; HEAD broken by recent commit for emacsclient

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: merlyn <at> stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)

Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:31:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 23.3

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 10155 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, "Randal L. Schwartz" <merlyn <at> stonehenge.com>
Subject: bug#10155: 23.3; HEAD broken by recent commit for emacsclient
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:44:01 -0500

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> From: merlyn <at> stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
>> Cc: 10155 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 10:13:47 -0800
>> 
>> Eli> Can you tell which system header declares `environ' on that
>> Eli> platform?
>> 
>> None... just
>> 
>>      extern char **environ;
>> 
>> says the manpage for environ.
>
> Then what would be the appropriate preprocessor symbol to guard such a
> declaration?  Would this do:
>
>  #if defined __APPLE__ && defined __MACH__
>  extern char **environ;
>  #endif

Can this be done in gnulib?
Better hide such ugliness in the compatibility layer...
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