🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <9209151900.AA05495@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu>, mib@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Michael I Bushnell) writes:
>    Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 07:42:26 EDT
>    From: pinard%icule.UUCP@Larry.McRCIM.McGill.EDU (Francois Pinard)
>    Reply-To: pinard@iro.umontreal.ca
> 
>       Configure should correctly figure out the options to use, or it has
>       a bug.  You should never need to edit the Makefile produced by GNU
>       programs which come with configure.
> 
>    These statements look quite strong to me, too strong in fact!  I would
>    certainly never expect `configure' to discover all peculiarities and
>    strangenesses of all systems and installations.
> 
> If a program cannot be completely configure by autoconf, then other
> things need to be done.

Ok, then here is the bug report for the $n+1$st time (it has been
reported in this forum more than once):

On HP/UX (both version 7.x and 8.0x) alloca() must not be taken from
libPW.a, but the supplied alloca.c must be used.
    In fact, on HP/UX 7.x libPW.a should be used *with great care*,
it contains brain dead code. (I haven't checked for 8.x, since I use a
replacement... ;-)

As long as this is not checked during the configuration process,
HP/UX users must edit a configure-made Makefile by hand. What's needed
are hints files, like in Larry Wall's Configure.

--
Joachim

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Joachim Schrod			Email: schrod@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de
Computer Science Department
Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany