lars@iclswe.icl.se (Lars Tunkrans) (06/03/91)
In SVR4 we have a getdate(3C) function which obviously comes into conflict with Cnews getdate. My quick and dirty soulution was to rename Cnews "getdate" to "getdat", this involved changes in just 4 source files in Cnews, less than 10 individual places in the code. My little hack cant be very imagiantive since I know almost nothing about C There must be several more people around who have ported Cnews to SVR4. How did you get around this problem ? Lars. -- _______________________________________________________________________________ Lars Tunkrans Phone +46 (0)76096368 DRS Systems Support DOMAIN Address : lars@iclswe.icl.se UUCP: uunet!mcsun!sunic!iclswe!lars X400: I=L;S=Tunkrans;OU1=SWE0102;O=ICL Data;P=ICL;A=TEDE;C=SE
kreed@telesys.cts.com (Kevin W. Reed) (06/03/91)
lars@iclswe.icl.se (Lars Tunkrans) writes: > In SVR4 we have a getdate(3C) function which obviously comes into >conflict with Cnews getdate. My quick and dirty soulution was to rename >Cnews "getdate" to "getdat", this involved changes in just 4 source files >in Cnews, less than 10 individual places in the code. >How did you get around this problem ? My solution was the same with ESIX 5.4, but I renamed it to cgetdate. I have as yet to test the resulting binaries though, and I did have a bunch of warning messages. Something drastic as changed with the signal functions as well as I get warning messages for every software package I have compiled so far when this function comes into play. I have yet to come up with coding for signal that won't complain. -- Kevin W. Reed TeleSys Development Systems San Diego, CA USA {nosc,ucsd}!crash!telesys!kreed kreed@telesys.cts.com TeleSys-II BBS & Development System Primary Number +1 619 483 3890
geoff@world.std.com (Geoff Collyer) (06/04/91)
Lars Tunkrans: >In SVR4 we have a getdate(3C) function which obviously comes into >conflict with Cnews [sic] getdate. More properly, that should be "A News getdate", I believe, or "Steve Bellovin's getdate" rather than "C News getdate". We plan to stop using it eventually. Ah, yes, SVR4 is just full of botches. The SVR4 development people obviously considered 10 years of existing practice with getdate unimportant. >My quick and dirty soulution was to rename Cnews [sic] "getdate" to >"getdat", this involved changes in just 4 source files in Cnews [sic], >less than 10 individual places in the code. It would probably be easier to just add " -Dgetdate=getdat" or " -Dgetdate=getdate_unpolluted_by_SVR4" to COPTS everywhere it appears in conf/doit.bin. -- Geoff Collyer world.std.com!geoff, uunet.uu.net!geoff