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diff --git a/README.xenix b/README.xenix new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..ca9a060880 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.xenix @@ -0,0 +1,53 @@ +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) + + |