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Re: Building grep 2.9 on SunOS 4


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: Building grep 2.9 on SunOS 4
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:21:33 -0700
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[adding gnulib]

On 02/01/2012 03:54 PM, Michael Haardt wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> with a few tiny changes, grep builds on SunOS 4:
> 
> lib/hash.h and lib/version-etc.h should include <stddef.h> for
> size_t.
> 
> In lib/errno.h, EILSEQ should be defined if the system does not do that.
> 
> lib/langinfo.in.h says:
> 
> /* A platform that lacks <langinfo.h>.  */
> 
> /* Assume that it also lacks <nl_types.h> and the nl_item type.  */
> 
> The assumption does not hold, SunOS 4 has langinfo.h, but lacks nl_types
> and nl_item.
> 
> And finally, SunOS 4 lacks memmove (can use bcopy) and atexit.
> 
> Is there any chance to fix those things to make an old system happy?

Gnulib would be the place to fix this, but right now, gnulib has pretty
much abandoned SunOS 4 as a museum piece because no current developer
has access to that old of a platform in order to actively contribute
patches to keep it running.  If you want to turn the tide and post the
patches in order to be that active maintainer, there's a chance that we
would apply them, if they aren't too hard to maintain.

-- 
Eric Blake   address@hidden    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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