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From: khc@eecea.eece.ksu.edu (Ken Carpenter)
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Subject: Re: BSD43 libraries
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Date: 1 Jun 90 13:21:49 GMT
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khc@eecea.eece.ksu.edu (Ken Carpenter) writes:

>In trying to compile a large piece of code that was originally
>written for bsd4.3, I finally got the compiling done without error
>by using -I/usr/include/bsd43 on the cc command line.
>Now when linking I have -lbsd specified, but still get an error
>message about three unfound symbols:  setsigmask, sigvec, and ftime.
>Does anyone know what library these are found in?

Thanks for the replies to the above.  The two suggested solutions were
to use the switch "-systype bsd43" with the sysV cc, and to use the
/bsd43/bin/cc as the compiler.  Here is what happened in my case:
1.  makefiles contained CC = /bin/cc originally - thus the fact
    that /bsd43/bin was first in my path did not matter.

2.  When the BSD code was made with CC = /bin/cc and
    "-systype bsd43" was added to CFLAGS
    the make was without error.  However, the executable dumped core
    on invocation.

3.  When the BSD code was made with CC = /bsd43/bin/cc and
    no addition to CFLAGS, the  make was without error, and the code
    ran almost the same as on a Sun 4/60. (The difference may be a
    machine dependent bug, not something in the compiling or linking.)

Conclusion: porting BSD4.3 code, use /bsd43/bin/cc explicitly when
compiling and linking, and make no other changes.


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