Re: configure-less Perl builds

[Dan Sugalski <dan@sidhe.org>]

At 05:46 PM 1/4/00 +0000, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:

> >In fact, how much of the C library are we
> >prepared to provide ourselves in order to get it up and working?
>
>Suppose opendir is a system call and not C library read()ing a filedesc
>open on the directory at all? (e.g. Win32 fakes opendir, and other
>weird OSes Apollo/DomainOS, VMS, MVS, etc. probably do likewise at some
>level.)

I don't know that this is really an issue--We already require ANSI C, and 
it defines readdir and friends.

What we might want to do is define some sort of 'plug-in' procedure that 
allows for there to be some way to yank in routines from a 
platform-specific source file (or set a bunch of defines) that either 
replace routines in the C library (if they're busted) or fill in for 
missing ones.

					Dan

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References to:

Simon Cozens <simon@brecon.co.uk>
Nick Ing-Simmons <nik@tiuk.ti.com>

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