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1 | From jpl-devvax!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!stl!robobar!ronald Thu Mar 7 09:51:06 PST 1991 |
| 2 | Article 4564 of comp.lang.perl: | |
| 3 | Path: jpl-devvax!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!stl!robobar!ronald | |
| 4 | >From: ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo) | |
| 5 | Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl | |
| 6 | Subject: Re: directory entries chopped on SCO Unix | |
| 7 | Message-ID: <1991Mar7.083046.14410@robobar.co.uk> | |
| 8 | Date: 7 Mar 91 08:30:46 GMT | |
| 9 | References: <18097@ogicse.ogi.edu> <DJM.91Mar5054514@egypt.eng.umd.edu> <498@stephsf.stephsf.com> | |
| 10 | Organization: Robobar Ltd., Perivale, Middx., ENGLAND. | |
| 11 | Lines: 38 | |
| 12 | Status: OR | |
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| 14 | wengland@stephsf.stephsf.com (Bill England) writes: | |
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| 16 | > Would modification of the config to | |
| 17 | > drop the Xenix specific test and also dropping the -lx library | |
| 18 | > work better on Xenix boxes ? Sorry I can't test Xenix here. | |
| 19 | ||
| 20 | This is a difficult question to answer, mostly because it's hard to | |
| 21 | tell exactly what kind of Xenix you have. | |
| 22 | ||
| 23 | Early releases didn't have any kind of ndir -- no problem | |
| 24 | ||
| 25 | Many releases have only sys/ndir + -lx -- no problem | |
| 26 | ||
| 27 | SCO Xenix 2.3.[012] have ndir + dirent, but dirent is reputedly | |
| 28 | broken on .0 and .1, hence the hack to undef it. | |
| 29 | ||
| 30 | *However*, the kernel upgrade to 2.3.3 (where dirent apparently works) | |
| 31 | from any lower 2.3.? is a free upgrade, which you can anon FTP or UUCP. | |
| 32 | ||
| 33 | I use dirent -- I had to make a decision which set of directory routines | |
| 34 | to throw out (so that there would be no confusion), so I threw out the | |
| 35 | old ones. This means I have to manually remove the ! defined(M_XENIX) | |
| 36 | hacks from the source which is very ugh. | |
| 37 | ||
| 38 | My opinion is that the hacks should be removed seeing as they only apply | |
| 39 | to a small number of operating system versions which you upgrade for | |
| 40 | free anyway. Chip may disagree with me. It all rather depends on your | |
| 41 | particular point of view. | |
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| 43 | You could hack Configure to do case "`uname -r`" in 2.3.[01]) | |
| 44 | I guess. It's a lot of code to handle just one specific case, | |
| 45 | since you have to determine whether to do it or not as well. | |
| 46 | ||
| 47 | In short, I Really Don't Know But It's All Very Annoying. | |
| 48 | ||
| 49 | Just another Xenix user, | |
| 50 | -- | |
| 51 | Ronald Khoo <ronald@robobar.co.uk> +44 81 991 1142 (O) +44 71 229 7741 (H) | |
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