🚀 go-pugleaf

Hello all, (although this is probably directed to people from
Pyramid reading these newsgroups),

  I have tried compiling many programs obtained from the Net
and other places on our Pyramid (a 9820, I believe, running OSx5.1),
and I keep running into compatibility problems. For a start,
is the ucb universe supposed to be _exactly_ like a BSD system ?
In most cases, Makefiles will have a BSD option, and yet these
programs fail to compile on the Pyramid. The most common errors 
include : missing string.h and stdlib.h, errno.h _doesn't_
have an 'extern int errno' in it, where standard systems do,
and the symbol 'BSD' is not defined by the compiler (although
'pyr' is). There are other incompatibilities, but these
are the ones that _always_ seem to occur (plus I can't remember
the others at the moment :-)

  Are fixes to these problems in sight ? ('official' fixes
from Pyramid, that is). Most programs, as yet, do not have
a specific Pyramid option, and contacting the authors of
all the programs that I attempt to compile to ask them to
add Pyramid setup seems to be an effort-wasting option
compared to having correct BSD operation on the Pyramid.

Thanks in advance,

-- 
David T Cook   e-mail: dcook@spam.adelaide.edu.au   Phone: +61 8 228 5709
    "Everything will be alright / Everything will turn out fine
  Some nights I still can't sleep / And the voices pass with time"
       - No Time To Cry, The Sisters of Mercy