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Re: PGP v2.1 and NeXT

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From: Rich Winkel
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 08:55
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In <WARLORD.92Dec12021232@deathtongue.mit.edu> warlord@MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins) writes:
]First of all, the NeXT is neither Mach nor BSD!  It is a BSD-ish UNIX
]signal server on top of Mach.  This means that if you are writing a
]kernel driver you need to write it for mach, but if you are writing a
]user-level application you should write if for BSD.  As far as PGP is
]concerned, its better to define BSD that not, since applications see a
]BSD interface.
]Yes, there is a problem in system.c:  it forgets to include "usuals.h"
]and you have to change the #ifdef around memset, memcmp, and memcpy to
]be:	#if defined(BSD) && !defined(NEXT)
]That is the ONLY changes that you should need to get PGP 2.1 to build
]on the NeXT platform.  You SHOULD NOT change the makefile.unx as
]suggested.

Interestingly enough, I ONLY changed the makefile and it compiled fine
on a next.  I haven't exhaustively run it, but it passed all the tests
suggested in setup.doc.
What gives?

Rich
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