PuTTY wish unix-portability

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summary: Extra portability in the Unix port
class: wish: This is a request for an enhancement.
priority: low: We aren't sure whether to fix this or not.
fixed-in: 2005-04-26 4cb79827c67c3817ed2a33ca95c2c4da909aafad (0.59)

People occasionally send us patches to make the Unix port more portable.

We're now using Autoconf to help with inter-Unix portability.

Here are some of the patches we received before that. Some of them may still be relevant:

FreeBSD:
- FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE
  wwvn0lvct6s.fsf@rjk.greenend.org.uk
- FreeBSD 5.1
  20031029224803.GK30375@earth.li
- FreeBSD-5.2-RELEASE
  1075418510.724.16.camel@localhost
  20040213160319.GA565@scimitar.noc.nl.demon.net (with commentary)
- Apparently PuTTY is now in the FreeBSD ports tree.
NetBSD with gcc-3.x
20031126022610.GA13294@babymeat.com
Solaris
20040217181156.GM17353@granzeau.com - fixed
Mac OS X
dhbecker-0uHkTAZ3waS4IzZ253W5cgjfAlrQMYu@mailblocks.com
wwv1xf7t9o1.fsf@rjk.greenend.org.uk
AIX (v4.3.3, v5.1, v5.2, v5.3)
OF71AF0B3D.3EEF9A4D-ONC1256F84.0077EAA2-C1256F84.007BE7DA@de.ibm.com

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