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From: tai@aspen.IAG.HP.COM (Tai Jin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: usleep [Re: BSD and HPUX, The Questions Continue...]
Message-ID: <2130012@aspen.IAG.HP.COM>
Date: 21 May 91 01:50:30 GMT
References: <1991May2.202710.5152@odin.diku.dk>
Organization: HP Information Architecture Group - Cupertino, CA
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In comp.sys.hp, s900387@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Craig Macbride) writes:

    jdudeck@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John R. Dudeck) writes:

    >I don't understand.  I just wasted many tens of hours trying to port a
    >large package (the PP X.400 system) to HP/UX, which broke signal()
    >because I was trying to use -lBSD in order to get the b*() functions.

    Join the club. I love the way the on-line docs say how signal() works and how
    the BSD sigset() (etc) commands work, and then HP slips a BSD signal()
    into the same library as bzero(), etc, so that you can't use these routines
    without breaking (or rewriting) all your signal-handling.

The way to make this work is to link the libraries in the correct order
ie. cc ... -lc -lBSD
This finds signal in libc.a and also finds the b* routines in libBSD.a.

...tai