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@@ -8,10 +8,19 @@ To compile this you need a couple things - 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. + g++ 3 does not presently work because they made the STL headers + use namespaces. - 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: + If you OS conforms to the Single Unix Spec then you are fine: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/index.html +** NOTICE ** +The C++ global constructors do not link correctly when using non-shared +libaries. This is probably the correct behavior of the linker, but I have +not yet had time to devise a work around for it. The correct thing to +do is add a reference to debSystem in apt-pkg/init.cc, +assert(&debSystem == 0) would be fine for instance. + Guidelines ~~~~~~~~~~ I am not interested in making 'ultra portable code'. I will accept patches @@ -27,12 +36,12 @@ 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/Linux statfs to SUS statvfs + * C99 integer types 'inttypes.h' + * sys/statvfs.h to convert from BSD/old-glibc statfs to SUS statvfs * rfc2553 hostname resolution (methods/rfc*), shims to normal gethostbyname. The more adventerous could steal the KAME IPv6 enabled resolvers for those OS's with IPv6 support but no rfc2553 (why?) - * define _XOPEN_EXTENDES_SOURCE to bring in h_errno on HP-UX + * define _XOPEN_EXTENDED_SOURCE to bring in h_errno on HP-UX * socklen_t shim in netdb.h if the OS does not have socklen_t The only completely non-shimed OS is Linux with glibc2.1, glibc2.0 requires @@ -42,24 +51,29 @@ Platform Notes ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Debian GNU Linux 2.1 'slink' Debian GNU Linux 'potato' +Debian GNU Linux 'woody' * All Archs - Works flawlessly - - You will want to have debiandoc-sgml and yodl installed to get + - You will want to have debiandoc-sgml and docbook2man installed to get best results. - No IPv6 Support in glibc's < 2.1. Sun Solaris SunOS cab101 5.7 Generic_106541-04 sun4u sparc + SunOS csu201 5.8 Generic_108528-04 sun4u sparc - Works fine - Note, no IPv6 Support, OS lacks RFC 2553 hostname resolution OpenBSD OpenBSD gsb086 2.5 CMPUT#0 i386 unknown - - Works fine + OpenBSD csu101 2.7 CMPUT#1 i386 unknown - OS needs 'ranlib' to generate the symbol table after 'ar'.. (not using GNU ar with the gnu tool chain :<) - - Note, no IPv6 Support, OS lacks RFC 2553 hostname resolution - + - '2.5' does not have RFC 2553 hostname resolution, but '2.7' does + - Testing on '2.7' suggests the OS has a bug in its handling of + ftruncate on files that have been written via mmap. It fills the page + that crosses the truncation boundary with 0's. + HP-UX HP-UX nyquist B.10.20 C 9000/780 2016574337 32-user license - Evil OS, does not conform very well to SUS |