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> <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 +44 81 991 1142 (O) +44 71 229 7741 (H)