merge-base: separate "--independent" codepath into its own helper

diff --git a/config.mak.uname b/config.mak.uname
index b27f51d4862c67f2dcc61c93f9e2db46f8e44bf6..7d615314f41f33df245efcecbe49f2aee3c90ad7 100644 (file)
--- a/config.mak.uname
+++ b/config.mak.uname
@@ -95,7 +95,6 @@ ifeq ($(uname_S),Darwin)
        NO_MEMMEM = YesPlease
        USE_ST_TIMESPEC = YesPlease
        HAVE_DEV_TTY = YesPlease
-       NEEDS_CLIPPED_WRITE = YesPlease
        COMPAT_OBJS += compat/precompose_utf8.o
        BASIC_CFLAGS += -DPRECOMPOSE_UNICODE
 endif