Re: global 5.4 build failed on sunos5.6

[Shigio YAMAGUCHI]

Hi paul,
> global 5.4 build failed on sunos5.6
> Previous 5.3 built ok with no problem.
> 
> gcc  -g -O2   -o global  global.o ../libutil/libgloutil.a ...
> Undefined                       first referenced
>  symbol                             in file
> setenv                              ../libutil/libgloutil.a(env.o)
> ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to global
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

I revived the use of putenv(3) like follows.
Thank you for your report.

Index: configure.ac
===================================================================
RCS file: /sources/global/global/configure.ac,v
retrieving revision 1.79
diff -c -r1.79 configure.ac
*** configure.ac        29 Jan 2007 00:54:07 -0000      1.79
--- configure.ac        5 Feb 2007 23:29:46 -0000
***************
*** 97,103 ****
  AC_FUNC_MEMCMP
  AC_TYPE_SIGNAL
  AC_FUNC_STRFTIME
! AC_CHECK_FUNCS(getcwd lstat snprintf)
  AC_CHECK_FUNCS(index rindex bzero bcmp bcopy strchr strrchr memset memcmp 
memmove)
  AC_CHECK_FUNCS(putc_unlocked getc_unlocked)
  AG_DJGPP
--- 97,103 ----
  AC_FUNC_MEMCMP
  AC_TYPE_SIGNAL
  AC_FUNC_STRFTIME
! AC_CHECK_FUNCS(getcwd putenv lstat snprintf)
  AC_CHECK_FUNCS(index rindex bzero bcmp bcopy strchr strrchr memset memcmp 
memmove)
  AC_CHECK_FUNCS(putc_unlocked getc_unlocked)
  AG_DJGPP
Index: libutil/env.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /sources/global/global/libutil/env.c,v
retrieving revision 1.14
diff -c -r1.14 env.c
*** libutil/env.c       30 Nov 2006 02:25:12 -0000      1.14
--- libutil/env.c       5 Feb 2007 23:29:46 -0000
***************
*** 48,54 ****
--- 48,65 ----
  void
  set_env(const char *var, const char *val)
  {
+ /*
+  * sparc-sun-solaris2.6 doesn't have setenv(3).
+  */
+ #ifdef HAVE_PUTENV
+       STRBUF *sb = strbuf_open(0);
+ 
+       strbuf_sprintf(sb, "%s=%s", var, val);
+       putenv(strbuf_value(sb));
+       /* Don't free memory. putenv(3) require it. */
+ #else
        setenv(var, val, 1);
+ #endif
  }
  /*
   * get_home_directory: get environment dependent home directory.
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