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From: tell@oscar.cs.unc.edu (Stephen Tell)
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Subject: Re: t/op/groups.t fails
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Date: 23 Apr 91 15:37:40 GMT
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In article <1991Apr22.212847.3788@jts.com> gerry@jts.com (G. Roderick Singleton ) writes:

You don't say exactly what kind of system you're using, but I had
this test fail on SunOS 4.1 when Configure got "gidtype" wrong.
Rummaging through the include files, I found I needed to set
gidtype='gid_t'

I was compiling with the SysV environment.

According to comments in /usr/5include/grp.h,
POSIX wants one size of gid_t, and BSD wants another.  I forget
which is which; one is short (16 bits), the other int (32 bits).

I had similar problems on Dec/Mips machines.
The usual symptom of getting the size wrong is spurious/missing
groups from perls builtins.

Configure probably has trouble wading through the various includes and
#ifdefs that specify things for the various environments.

I haven't had time to do 4.003 yet, so I don't know if the hints work.


Steve

>G. Roderick Singleton, System and Network Manager, JTS Computers 
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