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From: wengland@stephsf.stephsf.com (Bill England)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: directory entries chopped on SCO Unix
Message-ID: <498@stephsf.stephsf.com>
Date: 6 Mar 91 17:39:25 GMT
References: <DJM.91Mar2015606@egypt.eng.umd.edu> <18097@ogicse.ogi.edu> <DJM.91Mar5054514@egypt.eng.umd.edu>
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In article <DJM.91Mar5054514@egypt.eng.umd.edu> djm@eng.umd.edu (David J. MacKenzie) writes:
>[...]
>Apparently what happens if you use -lx is perl mismatches the dirent.h
>header file with the -lx directory routines, which return a
>different-sized struct.  If you use either sys/ndir.h with -lx, or

  Thanks,  that makes more sense than what I thought was going on. The
  config does contain some code to skip dirent on Xenix boxes and 
  (presumably)  use sys/ndir.  Would modification of the config to 
  drop the Xenix specific test and also dropping the -lx library
  work better on Xenix boxes ?  Sorry I can't test Xenix here.


  Bill England
  wengland@stephsf.com
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