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From: sscott@camdev.comm.mot.com	 (Steve Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Config on APOLLO SR10.2
Keywords: ack
Message-ID: <308@camdev.comm.mot.com?>
Date: 5 Nov 90 14:26:10 GMT
References: <1990Nov2.225524.6123@vlsi-mentor.jpl.nasa.gov> <1222@digi.lonestar.org>
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kgallagh@digi.lonestar.org (Kevin Gallagher) writes:

>In article <1990Nov2.225524.6123@vlsi-mentor.jpl.nasa.gov> dave@vlsi-mentor.jpl.nasa.gov (David Hayes) writes:
>>Something's not entirely right about Configure on Apollo's running SR10.2.
>>... 
>>dup2() not found
>>fchmod() not found
>>fchown() not found
>>[more of the same deleted]
>>Yet these routines DO exist. Somewhere. I always have to go into config.h
>>and fix it up to realize that these routines are there. 
>>
>>Has anyone found a useful way to let Configure know what is really there?
>>I really HATE editing config.h....

>The problem is that Apollo's /bin/cc compiler has two C libraries: /lib/clib
>and /lib/libc.  Configure only finds one and just searches it.  It does not
>search the other unless told to do so.  You need to tell it to do so by
>specifying the missing library with the -l option when asked by Configure.

>Unfortunately, Configure will add this -l option in the make files, which will
>cause the compiler to abort when it encounters the option.  So be sure to
>delete this -l option from the make files before kicking off the build.

>/bin/cc will search both libaries on its own.

Interesting, eh?

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