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lwv26@cas.org (Larry W. Virden) writes:

>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.

Well, that's not always true - for example, there are such heavy bugs in
the sun tty driver that you *have* to workaround them by #ifdef sun...
(fixed by the jumbo tty patch, but one cannot rely on it being
installed).

>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

I think that's a major design error from sun - no way to determine the
exact type of machine by C preprocessor statements.

gert
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