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