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1 total messages Started by Karl Berry Wed, 11 Nov 1992 06:02

#1073

Author: Karl Berry
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 06:02

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getdate.y in fileutils 3.4 and shellutils 1.8 still doesn't compile an
IBM RT running AOS (4.3BSD) with gcc 2.3.1.  The problem is unchanged
from the last release getdate.y was in (tar 1.11.1, I think): <time.h>
is included twice, once by virtue of the #include <sys/time.h> (which in
turn includes <time.h>) around line 40 of getdate.y:

#if !defined (USG) && !defined (sgi) && !defined (__386BSD__)
#include <sys/time.h>
#endif

and again by virtue of the #include <time.h> around line 76:

#if	defined(BSD4_2) || defined(BSD4_1C) || (defined (hp9000) && !defined (hpux))
#include <sys/time.h>
#else
#if defined(_AIX)
#include <sys/time.h>
#endif
#include <time.h>
#endif	/* defined(BSD4_2) */


More generally, the problem is that Autoconf does not define symbols
like BSD4_2 or BSD4_1C (in this case, defining BSD4_2 solves the
problem, since <sys/time.h> is protected against multiple inclusion).
Personally, I think those ``system macros'' like BSD4_2 are doomed to
failure; I don't know what feature getdate.y is trying to include in
those lines, but whatever it is, surely it would be better to test for
it specifically.

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