minar@reed.bitnet (Nelson Minar,(???)) (06/08/90)
Ok. PDMake looks great, terrific, wonderful. It doesn't compile for Turbo C 2.0, as is. First, the stupid thing - how do you do a make without a decent make utility? :) I figured that one out. However, two functions are called in the MSDOS version of PDMake that Turbo C does not know about: utime() and tempnam(). utime(), according to a UN*X man page, changes the file modification/creation time of its first argument, and returns a 0 if all went well, or an errorcode if it didnt (if, for example, the file does not exist). Sounds like touch, right? Well, TC 2.0 does not have this function, and a quick glance through the manual didn't show one that would do the same thing. Currently, I've stubbed utime() to do absolutely nothing (yech). Does such a thing exist, is there a PD version of the function for TC 2.0, or is there a simple way to mimic its behaviour using existing functions (it shouldn't be too hard, but its not obvious to me). tempnam(), according to a UN*X man page, returns a 'safe' temporary file name, with various conventions for what path to put it in, and a caller- optional prefix to prepend. I've currently stubbed it to return the name "make.$$$", although I'll get around to rewriting it to return [prefix]xxxx.$$$, where prefix is the caller-optional prefix, and xxxx is a pseudo-random hex number. Should be passable. Does anyone already have a PD version of this function to save me the trouble of doing it (and maybe doing it wrong). Other than these two small hassles related to compiling under Turbo C (and the fact that the author prototypes none of his functions.. grrrr!), PDmake looks nice. Summary - are there replacements for utime() and tempnam() for Turbo C 2.0? PD sources are ideal, but I'll take anything.
grimlok@hubcap.clemson.edu (Mike Percy) (06/08/90)
minar@reed.bitnet (Nelson Minar,(???)) writes: >Summary - are there replacements for utime() and tempnam() for Turbo C 2.0? >PD sources are ideal, but I'll take anything. My mail bounced (surprise! surprise!) Check out getftime() and setftime() and mktemp() in your TurboC manual.
bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante) (06/08/90)
(In addition to setftime()/getftime() and mktemp(),) take a look at tmpnam() and tmpfile(). Note, no `e' in the name. TC claims these are unix-available, and our ULTRIX manpage references `tmpnam()' and `tempnam()' together. They apparently differ in selection of directory.