Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!oz.cis.ohio-state.edu!jgreely From: jgreely@oz.cis.ohio-state.edu (J Greely) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Usenet software Message-ID: Date: 10 Oct 89 17:21:30 GMT References: <651@wet.UUCP> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: J Greely Distribution: usa Organization: Ohio State University Computer and Information Science Lines: 16 In-reply-to: epsilon@wet.UUCP's message of 9 Oct 89 02:28:56 GMT In article <651@wet.UUCP> epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott) writes: >Larry Wall's Configure has some problems. It doesn't like the GNU >cpp, so it had to be faked out somewhat. It also guessed wrong on >VFORK and GETPWENT. The problem is that rn predates ANSI C, and no official patches have come out for some time. Last I heard, a complete rewrite was in the works, possibly in Perl. The Configure scripts have changed a lot since rn came out, and the one supplied with Perl 3.0g works almost perfectly on a NeXT (and where it doesn't, it's not Larry's fault). The reason it goofed on vfork is that it uses a sed script to grok the output of nm, and it fails to strip multiple underscores. I don't know about getpwent; I'd have to see what it does. -=- J Greely (jgreely@cis.ohio-state.edu; osu-cis!jgreely)