Re: Sys::Syslog stuff

[Scott Henry <scotth@sgi.com>]

>>>>> "R" == Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:

R> Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafayette.edu> writes:
>> I haven't paid attention to this issue in several years, however.
>> Perhaps Kurt's work on h2ph has brought us to the point where it's worth
>> reconsidering.  (Not so much to support the core distribution, which
>> should in principle be changed to not need h2ph, but to support existing
>> programs.)

R> At least as of 5.005, socket.ph (probably the most important of all of
R> them in terms of core functionality) required some manual edits to get it
R> working somewhere.  I think it was Linux, but I could be remembering
R> wrong.  (IIRC, it included another parsed header file which contained
R> invalid Perl code.)

In IRIX, socket.ph broke due to select.ph, so I am including a
working select.ph in recent distributions, as well as the
IRIX-specific sgidefs.ph file (which also doesn't parse well by h2ph).


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References to:

Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafayette.edu>
Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>

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