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From: kreed@telesys.cts.com (Kevin W. Reed)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Conflict between SVR4 and Cnews getdate.
Keywords: getdate
Message-ID: <1991Jun3.133631.7773@telesys.cts.com>
Date: 3 Jun 91 13:36:31 GMT
References: <1991Jun2.203518.4101@iclswe.icl.se>
Organization: TeleSys Development Systems (San Diego, CA U.S.A.)
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lars@iclswe.icl.se (Lars Tunkrans) writes:
>  In SVR4 we have a getdate(3C) function which obviously comes into 
>conflict with Cnews getdate. My quick and dirty soulution was to rename
>Cnews "getdate" to "getdat", this involved changes in just 4 source files
>in Cnews, less than 10 individual places in the code.

>How did you get around this problem ?

My solution was the same with ESIX 5.4, but I renamed it to cgetdate.  
I have as yet to test the resulting binaries though, and I did have a
bunch of warning messages.

Something drastic as changed with the signal functions as well as I get
warning messages for every software package I have compiled so far when 
this function comes into play.  I have yet to come up with coding for
signal that won't complain.

-- 
Kevin W. Reed      TeleSys Development Systems   San Diego, CA USA
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