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Article #373Epoch dies in getenv on NeXTstation
From: Chris Paris
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1991 01:53
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1991 01:53
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I'm trying to bring up Epoch 3.2, patchlevel 2, on a NeXTstation. I got it to compile with only two changes outside of config.h, but it dumps core on the first call to getenv. I presume that the emacs crt0.c isn't setting up the environment correctly. It looks good when I look through it with gdb. When I define MAINTAIN_ENVIRONMENT, the environment code in emacs itself (i.e., calls to egetenv) work correctly, but the system getenv is called in time(3). In NeXTOS 2.0, there is no way (that I know of) to redefine a function that is in the standard library. Otherwise I could simply rely on the emacs getenv stuff, since it seems to work. The real solution is to figure out just what the environment is supposed to look like to NeXT's getenv. Hint: if I run a Sun 3 binary through the conversion program atom(1), the resultant binary executes correctly on a NeXT. This indicates that the operating system is supplying the environment in the standard format. Another problem I had in the compilation is that some library function wants symbols _NXArgc and _NXArgv. I have no idea what these are, but I defined them and set them equal to argc and argv in crt0.c. Any clues on these issues would be much appreciated. Chris Paris cap@cs.cmu.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!o.gp.cs.cmu.edu!netnews From: cap@cs.cmu.edu (Chris Paris) Newsgroups: gnu.epoch.misc,comp.sys.next Subject: Epoch dies in getenv on NeXTstation Message-ID: <1991Mar21.015356.857@cs.cmu.edu> Date: 21 Mar 91 01:53:56 GMT Sender: netnews@cs.cmu.edu (USENET News Group Software) Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon Lines: 26