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- >From: ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
- Subject: Re: directory entries chopped on SCO Unix
- Message-ID: <1991Mar7.083046.14410@robobar.co.uk>
- Date: 7 Mar 91 08:30:46 GMT
- References: <18097@ogicse.ogi.edu> <DJM.91Mar5054514@egypt.eng.umd.edu> <498@stephsf.stephsf.com>
- Organization: Robobar Ltd., Perivale, Middx., ENGLAND.
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- Status: OR
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- wengland@stephsf.stephsf.com (Bill England) writes:
-
- > Would modification of the config to
- > drop the Xenix specific test and also dropping the -lx library
- > work better on Xenix boxes ? Sorry I can't test Xenix here.
-
- This is a difficult question to answer, mostly because it's hard to
- tell exactly what kind of Xenix you have.
-
- Early releases didn't have any kind of ndir -- no problem
-
- Many releases have only sys/ndir + -lx -- no problem
-
- SCO Xenix 2.3.[012] have ndir + dirent, but dirent is reputedly
- broken on .0 and .1, hence the hack to undef it.
-
- *However*, the kernel upgrade to 2.3.3 (where dirent apparently works)
- from any lower 2.3.? is a free upgrade, which you can anon FTP or UUCP.
-
- I use dirent -- I had to make a decision which set of directory routines
- to throw out (so that there would be no confusion), so I threw out the
- old ones. This means I have to manually remove the ! defined(M_XENIX)
- hacks from the source which is very ugh.
-
- My opinion is that the hacks should be removed seeing as they only apply
- to a small number of operating system versions which you upgrade for
- free anyway. Chip may disagree with me. It all rather depends on your
- particular point of view.
-
- You could hack Configure to do case "`uname -r`" in 2.3.[01])
- I guess. It's a lot of code to handle just one specific case,
- since you have to determine whether to do it or not as well.
-
- In short, I Really Don't Know But It's All Very Annoying.
-
- Just another Xenix user,
- --
- Ronald Khoo <ronald@robobar.co.uk> +44 81 991 1142 (O) +44 71 229 7741 (H)
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