Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!oz.cis.ohio-state.edu!jgreely From: jgreely@oz.cis.ohio-state.edu (J Greely) Newsgroups: alt.sources.d Subject: Re: uutraffic report (in perl) Message-ID: Date: 21 Nov 89 21:26:25 GMT References: <4025@mhres.mh.nl> <1194@radius.UUCP> <3273@convex.UUCP> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: J Greely Organization: Ohio State University Computer and Information Science Lines: 25 In-reply-to: tchrist@convex.COM's message of 21 Nov 89 04:28:30 GMT In article <3273@convex.UUCP> tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes: >He's extremely helpful in getting perl running on >new machines, and I'll bet it's already been tweaked for your >architecture. Well, no. He's using a NeXT, which requires a trivial patch to Configure that Larry hasn't installed yet (despite two requests from me, sigh). And, of course, you have to compile with the -bsd switch and ignore the supplied malloc. *** Configure.dist Tue Nov 21 16:23:15 1989 --- Configure Fri Nov 17 22:24:14 1989 *************** *** 1470,1475 **** --- 1470,1476 ---- : see if sprintf is declared as int or pointer to char echo " " cat >.ucbsprf.c <<'EOF' + #include main() { char buf[10]; exit((unsigned long)sprintf(buf,"%s","foo") > 10L); } EOF if $cc $ccflags .ucbsprf.c -o .ucbsprf >/dev/null 2>&1 && .ucbsprf; then -=- J Greely (jgreely@cis.ohio-state.edu; osu-cis!jgreely)