From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2012 17:06:46 +0100
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] Avoid using GNU basename
In-Reply-To: <CAHjoi4eRTxXJKwg_XsEvtELNQmDzfqHzZiRO=MY-jfVYvDUrgA@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAHjoi4eR+n=qQ8vZAKwwgLiPSFfrBWHRHwYNvfJn4y0F9EqO7g@mail.gmail.com>
	<20120302071610.820A8185B4B9@gemini.denx.de>
	<CAHjoi4dV3gP1XqoH5vUy_NJAFouAx3HbTt-bHqfP2nrt-2o39w@mail.gmail.com>
	<20120302164219.CEE7D14BC60D@gemini.denx.de>
	<CAHjoi4eRTxXJKwg_XsEvtELNQmDzfqHzZiRO=MY-jfVYvDUrgA@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <20120303160646.9A30D126F3B0@gemini.denx.de>
List-Id: <u-boot.lists.denx.de>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de

Dear Keith,

please keep the mailing list on Cc:

In message <CAHjoi4eRTxXJKwg_XsEvtELNQmDzfqHzZiRO=MY-jfVYvDUrgA@mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
> 
> > I'm not a windows expert (actually I'm proud of never having worked
> > with Windows in my whole life), but I think it is only the command
> > line interface that insists of using '\\' (because DOS used '/' as
> > option switch).
> So should we stick on using libgen provided basename to maximize the
> compatibility of different platforms ?

I don't think so.  As the comment in "/usr/include/libgen.h" suggests,
we should use "the weird XPG version of this function" only when
really needed.  And we definitely don;t need to do that on GNU/Linux
systems.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

-- 
DENX Software Engineering GmbH,     MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel
HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany
Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd at denx.de
Hindsight is an exact science.