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From: rrr@u02.svl.cdc.com (rich ragan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: dirent.h problem
Message-ID: <24760@shamash.cdc.com>
Date: 17 Aug 90 21:34:33 GMT
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In <1990Aug16.132555.20137@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU> gaspar@STL-08SIMA.ARMY.MIL (Al Gaspar) writes:

>I am trying to bring up perl 3.0; patchlevel 28 under SysVr3 on a
>UNISYS 5000/95.  I have dirent.h and Configure has defined READDIR
>and I_DIRENT config.h.  However, when I do a make the compile on
>perl.c fails with a syntax error on line 73 of stab.h.  These are
>the relevant lines in that file:

>72  #ifdef READDIR
>73      DIR		*dirp;		/* for opendir, readdir, etc */
>74  #endif

I had the same error and finally ended up undefining READDIR
which got perl to build OK and pass all the test so I guess
I didn't lose too much facility. However, I remain curious
about this.
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Richard R. Ragan (408) 496-4340
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