RE: alphasort on HP-NonStop

[Joachim Schmitz]

Hi Bruno

I just had a look at the code (of the library for HP-NonStop), and it does 
indeed look as if they have just been forgotten to get documented and declared 
in in dirent.c, here's the code:

int alphasort(struct dirent **d1, struct dirent **d2)
{
         return(strcmp((*d1)->d_name, (*d2)->d_name));
}

int alphasort64(struct dirent64 **d1, struct dirent64 **d2)
{
         return(strcmp((*d1)->d_name, (*d2)->d_name));
}


I see that gnulib uses strcoll() rather than strcmp(), which seems to be what 
POSIX mandates.
I'll request a bug fix for these issues from  HP NonStop development...

Bye, Jojo
-----Original Message-----
From: Joachim Schmitz [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Friday, December 24, 2010 1:57 PM
To: 'Bruno Haible'
Cc: 'address@hidden'
Subject: RE: alphasort on HP-NonStop

Thanks.
I'll report this as a bug to HP NonStop development. Last change on the lib was 
that scandir() and scandir64() had been added, looks like alphasort() got added 
too, but not externalized.

Bye, Jojo
-----Original Message-----
From: Bruno Haible [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Friday, December 24, 2010 12:25 PM
To: Joachim Schmitz
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: alphasort on HP-NonStop

Joachim Schmitz wrote:
> Ah! Found it in a lib called zutildll! And that indeed  gets linked by 
> my wrapper script. It is not documented anywhere, so I'm not sure 
> whether it serves the purpose POSIX defined for this...

Yes, when a function is not documented, it's most reliable to not use it.

> Not sure whether I'd need to do an #undef HAVE_ALPHASORT or just add 
> it's prototype and where to do any of this.

Or set the variable ac_cv_func_alphasort to no in your environment or in a 
local config.site file before running configure.

Bruno