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diff --git a/README.xenix b/README.xenix deleted file mode 100644 index ca9a060880..0000000000 --- a/README.xenix +++ /dev/null @@ -1,53 +0,0 @@ -From jpl-devvax!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!stl!robobar!ronald Thu Mar 7 09:51:06 PST 1991 -Article 4564 of comp.lang.perl: -Path: jpl-devvax!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!stl!robobar!ronald ->From: ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo) -Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl -Subject: Re: directory entries chopped on SCO Unix -Message-ID: <1991Mar7.083046.14410@robobar.co.uk> -Date: 7 Mar 91 08:30:46 GMT -References: <18097@ogicse.ogi.edu> <DJM.91Mar5054514@egypt.eng.umd.edu> <498@stephsf.stephsf.com> -Organization: Robobar Ltd., Perivale, Middx., ENGLAND. -Lines: 38 -Status: OR - -wengland@stephsf.stephsf.com (Bill England) writes: - -> Would modification of the config to -> drop the Xenix specific test and also dropping the -lx library -> work better on Xenix boxes ? Sorry I can't test Xenix here. - -This is a difficult question to answer, mostly because it's hard to -tell exactly what kind of Xenix you have. - - Early releases didn't have any kind of ndir -- no problem - - Many releases have only sys/ndir + -lx -- no problem - - SCO Xenix 2.3.[012] have ndir + dirent, but dirent is reputedly - broken on .0 and .1, hence the hack to undef it. - - *However*, the kernel upgrade to 2.3.3 (where dirent apparently works) - from any lower 2.3.? is a free upgrade, which you can anon FTP or UUCP. - -I use dirent -- I had to make a decision which set of directory routines -to throw out (so that there would be no confusion), so I threw out the -old ones. This means I have to manually remove the ! defined(M_XENIX) -hacks from the source which is very ugh. - -My opinion is that the hacks should be removed seeing as they only apply -to a small number of operating system versions which you upgrade for -free anyway. Chip may disagree with me. It all rather depends on your -particular point of view. - -You could hack Configure to do case "`uname -r`" in 2.3.[01]) -I guess. It's a lot of code to handle just one specific case, -since you have to determine whether to do it or not as well. - -In short, I Really Don't Know But It's All Very Annoying. - -Just another Xenix user, --- -Ronald Khoo <ronald@robobar.co.uk> +44 81 991 1142 (O) +44 71 229 7741 (H) - - |