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In article AA00412@wintermute.ncsa.uiuc.edu, marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen) writes:
[This is directed at Gerry Singleton and/or Dean Kemp at Sun, who
provided Solaris patches for Epoch today; I can't seem to reach them
via email.]

Hi, a few questions about your solaris patches:

(1) What does the '-Xs' compiler flag do?  I assume it's essential for
    Solaris' use of cc -E?

It forces compatiblity with pre-ANSI Sun C and only warns about all language
constructs that have differing behavior between Sun ANSI C and the old Sun C.


(2) Is your switch to nonlocal minibuffer == false by default just
    personal preference or is something wrong with it when Epoch is
    run under Solaris?

I honestly do not know.  It's historical from the original port aand I've never
had a reason to change.  (See below)

(3) Why has the XFlush() call been removed from x_selection_request in
    selection.c?

Again, a historical change.  There were major problems in the alpha and beta
releases of the OS and openwindows and, as I recall, these were some of the gotchas.
I shall revise things when I get the official release of Solaris-2.0FCS and am able
to test.

In the meantime, at least until all the beta sites go FCS, I recommend keeping this
one.  Can you make it conditional and tied to a variable in the s-sunos5.h, say
BETA or ... so that it can go away easily later on?

I'll continue testing, and any solaris user out there who feel sufficiently secure
please try returning to the defaults mentioned and e-mail me the results (questions
2 and 3).

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G. Roderick Singleton, OPCOM Solaris 2.0 Migration Support Centre
{ gerrys@canada.sun.com | gerry@nexus.yorku.ca | gerry@eclectic.uucp }