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From: mco@slimer.UUCP (Mark C. Otto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,gnu.bash.bug
Subject: Re: bash & the att3b1
Keywords: All you need to do is run make ehh?
Message-ID: <1099@slimer.UUCP>
Date: 23 Aug 90 00:34:00 GMT
References: <4440@vaxwaller.UUCP> <28707@netnews.upenn.edu>
Reply-To: mco@slimer.UUCP (Mark C. Otto)
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In article <28707@netnews.upenn.edu> kehoe@scotty.dccs.upenn.edu (Brendan Kehoe) writes:
>In <4440@vaxwaller.UUCP>, lefko@vaxwaller.UUCP writes:
>>2. alloca-files/alloca.c had to be compiled by hand because somehow
>>the makefile believed it was already there.  
>
> Hmm...when I did it I didn't have that problem..
>

Try picking up alloca from the osu-cis archive for the 3B1/7300.

[...other stuff deleted...]

>>This is the one that stopped me.
>>
>>5. The linker could not find opendir(), readir() and creatdir().
>>Neither could I.  Does anyone know how to get around this problem?
>
> Yep...type the stuff in from The C Programming Language's Unix section
>(at least that's what I did).

Yuck! The osu-cis archive has a POSIX upgrade kit for the 3B1 library
which contains all of these and more - debugged and working.

Your 3B1 came with System V, but you certainly shouldn't have to put up
with ALL of the limitations that implies.  Look around - there are others
who have passed this way before you and have blazed a trail.  Make good
use of the tools they have supplied and you may find the 3B1 to still
be a viable personal UNIX platform. :-)



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