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Article #10Re: distinguish solaris 1 (SunOS 4) from solaris 2.x?
From: Larry W. Virden
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 1994 19:22
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 1994 19:22
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Frankly, this is something that about software for some time that seems fixable. Sun has been pushing the use of the System V libraries via /usr/5bin:/bin for quite some time. And I have dutifully been doing that. And numerous packages who depended solely on ifdef sun's typically broken, since they were expecting to be compiled in BSD mode rather than System V mode. To me, it seems obvious that rather than depend on an ifdef sun - which could be a sparc, sun 3 , sun 386 or now solaris on an 386, one should have a configuration testing program to test for specific features. Of course, for folk who want to set up some make rules for sun, sgi, ultrix, etc. to set some defaults, that is fine - just put the appropriate sets of -D flags into CFLAGS for each rule and then the next variety of os that comes along can more easily configure the package. -- :s Great net resources sought... :s Larry W. Virden INET: lvirden@cas.org :s Personal: 674 Falls Place, Reynoldsburg, OH 43068-1614 The task of an educator should be to irrigate the desert not clear the forest.
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