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author | Arch Librarian <arch@canonical.com> | 2004-09-20 16:55:31 +0000 |
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committer | Arch Librarian <arch@canonical.com> | 2004-09-20 16:55:31 +0000 |
commit | 1ae93c94429de697fb17f7067367fbf32fd3b6fc (patch) | |
tree | dc02b0f8e2682908655ebf27ee5d9e6796ab84f1 /COMPILING | |
parent | d955fe80937173f6e4c609ae58a916b61137583d (diff) | |
download | apt-1ae93c94429de697fb17f7067367fbf32fd3b6fc.tar.gz |
HP-UX fixes
Author: jgg
Date: 1999-12-10 23:40:29 GMT
HP-UX fixes
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diff --git a/COMPILING b/COMPILING new file mode 100644 index 000000000..3ce726180 --- /dev/null +++ b/COMPILING @@ -0,0 +1,67 @@ +General Information +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +To compile this you need a couple things + - A working POSIX system with working POSIX gcc, g++, make (GNU), + ar, sh, awk and sed in the path + - GNU Make 3.74 or so, -- normal UNIX make will NOT work + * Note 3.77 is broken. + - A working ANSI C++ compiler, this is not g++ 2.7.* + g++ 2.8 works OK and newer egcs work well also. Nobody has tried it + on other compilers :< You will need a properly working STL as well. + - A C library with the usual POSIX functions and a BSD socket layer. + If you OS conforms to the Single User Spec then you are fine: + http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/index.html + +Guidelines +~~~~~~~~~~ +I am not interested in making 'ultra portable code'. I will accept patches +to make the code that already exists conform more to SUS or POSIX, but +I don't really care if your not-SUS OS doesn't work. It is simply too +much work to maintain patches for dysfunctional OSs. I highly suggest you +contact your vendor and express intrest in a conforming C library. + +That said, there are lots of finniky problems that must be delt with even +between the supported OS's. Primarily the path I choose to take is to put +a shim header file in build/include that transparently adds the required +functionality. Patches to make autoconf detect these cases and generate the +required shims are OK. + +Current shims: + * C9x integer types 'inttypes.h' + * sys/statvfs.h to convert from BSD statfs to SUS statvfs + * rfc2553 hostname resolution (methods/rfc*), shims to normal gethostbyname. + +The only completely non-shimed OS is Linux with glibc2.1 + +Platform Notes +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +Debian GNU Linux 2.1 'slink' +Debian GNU Linux 'potato' + * All Archs + - Works flawlessly + - You will want to have debiandoc-sgml and yodl installed to get + best results. + - No IPv6 Support in glibc's < 2.1 + +Sun Solaris + SunOS cab101 5.7 Generic_106541-04 sun4u sparc + - Works fine + - Note, no IPv6 Support, OS lacks RFC 2553 hostname resolution + +HP-UX + HP-UX nyquist B.10.20 C 9000/780 2016574337 32-user license + - Evil OS, does not conform very well to SUS + 1) snprintf exists but is not prototyped, ignore spurios warnings + 2) No socklen_t + 3) Requires -D_XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED for h_errno + Items 2 and 3 have to be fixed by hand. Insert this into + build/include/netdb.h: + + #define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED + #define socklen_t size_t + #include_next <netdb.h> + + A similar techinque can be used for snprintf/vsprintf if you dislike + the warnings + - Note, no IPv6 Support, OS lacks RFC 2553 hostname resolution + |