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| -rw-r--r-- | hints/dynixptx.sh | 18 |
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diff --git a/hints/dynixptx.sh b/hints/dynixptx.sh index f726974d0f..0bf580e885 100644 --- a/hints/dynixptx.sh +++ b/hints/dynixptx.sh @@ -24,6 +24,24 @@ usenm='n' d_vfork='define' optimize='-Wc,-O3 -W0,-xstring' +# We override d_socket because it's very hard for Configure to get it right +# in Dynix/Ptx, for several reasons. +# (1) the socket interface is in libsocket.so -- this wouldn't be so hard +# for Configure to fathom...but it gets more tangled. +# (2) if the system has been patched there can be libsocket.so.1.FOO.BAR, +# the FOO.BAR being the old version of the system before the patching. +# Configure picks up the old broken version. +# (3) libsocket.so points to either libsocket.so.1 (v4.2) +# or libsocket.so.1.1 (v4.4) The socket call in libsocket.so.1.1 +# (BSD socket library) is called bsd_socket(), and has a macro wrapper +# to hide this. +# This information kindly provided by Martin J. Bligh of Sequent. +# As he puts it: +# "Sequent has unusual capabilities, taking it above and beyond +# the complexity of any other vendor" :-) +# +# Jarkko Hietaniemi August 1998 + case "$osvers" in 4.4*) # configure doesn't find sockets, as they're in libsocket, not libc d_socket='define' |