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Article #903finger-1.36 minor bug on hpux
From: Neal Becker
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 14:33
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 14:33
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Thanks for finger-1.36! Installation was a lot easier than 1.35. One minor problem: On hpux 8.07 finger shows entries for terminal "co" (console, I guess) which all show idle time of 24 years! Anyone know why? Another minor install problem. make server or make client insists on recompiling things. This can cause nasty root NFS access problems, if your source directory is NFS mounted, since installation may require root privlege. It would be nicer to use a more traditional approach, so that make would build all sources, and make server would only install without modifying the source directory. BTW - everyone knows -lPW causes problems with HPUX (/lib/libPW.a contains definitions of some stuff you don't want along with alloca). Some gnu installs suggest extracting alloca and making a /usr/local/lib/liballoca.a. I have been using this approach. Unfortunately, gnu configure doesn't know about this. I suggest that configure should look for liballoca.a first, then libPW.a. The alternative approach (used by finger-1.36) is: ld ... -lPW -lc -lPW Unfortunately, my experience is that this is not only silly, it also doesn't always work. I vote for supporting liballoca instead.
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Newsgroups: gnu.utils.bug Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!ctd.COMsat.COM!neal From: neal@ctd.COMsat.COM (Neal Becker) Subject: finger-1.36 minor bug on hpux Message-ID: <9210130933.aa07832@louie.udel.edu> Sender: gnulists@ai.mit.edu Organization: COMSAT Labs Distribution: gnu Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 14:33:19 GMT Approved: bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu Lines: 27