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From: itkin@mrspoc.Transact.COM (Steven M. List)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: HELP: PERL 4.0 on SCO Xenix 2.3.3 w/GCC
Message-ID: <1991Apr12.234343.16473@mrspoc.Transact.COM>
Date: 12 Apr 91 23:43:43 GMT
Reply-To: steven@Transact.COM
Organization: Transact Software
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I've gotten the 4.0 sources, and am trying to build them.  I read
Ronald Khoo's commentary about ndir vs. dirent, and did as he suggested,
removing the "!defined(M_XENIX)" to get past several compile errors.
Now I'm having a problem with the "#ifdef __STDC__" stuff that either
does or doesn't include the "extern char **environ;".  Apparently, through
the auspices of the compiler, __STDC__ is being defined.  It doesn't seem
to matter whether I use CC or GCC, unfortunately (I wrote a little test
program to determine whether __STDC__ is defined).  As a result, the extern
declaration is NOT included and the compilation of doarg.c fails.  As will
other modules (like util.c).

Please help me!  I'm very frustrated.  I tried the -traditional flag for
GCC, but that caused all sorts of other errors.  ARGH!

Steven
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