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Re: [Scsh-hackers] First Release Candidate of 0.6.6

To: "Brian D. Carlstrom" <bdc@carlstrom.com>
Subject: Re: [Scsh-hackers] First Release Candidate of 0.6.6
From: Martin Gasbichler <gasbichl@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>
Date: Mon Mar 15 08:45:00 2004
Cc: scsh-hackers <scsh-hackers@lists.sourceforge.net>
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"Brian D. Carlstrom" <bdc@carlstrom.com> writes:

> Martin Gasbichler writes:
>  > Please test the new tarball and report back to this list!
>
> Ultrix 4.3 won't build because of the introduction of h_errno a while back.
>     ULTRIX ogun 4.3 1 RISC
>
> The simple fix would have been to add the following to scsh/ultrix/sysdep.h:
>     extern int h_errno;
>
> However, it seems like scsh/machine/sysdep.h is no longer included. I'm
> guessing it used to be included by the main sysdep.h. If that is true,
> that means all of these are dead code?
>
>     ./scsh/aix/sysdep.h
>     ./scsh/bsd/sysdep.h
>     ./scsh/cygwin32/sysdep.h
>     ./scsh/generic/sysdep.h
>     ./scsh/gnu/sysdep.h
>     ./scsh/hpux/sysdep.h
>     ./scsh/irix/sysdep.h
>     ./scsh/linux/sysdep.h
>     ./scsh/next/sysdep.h
>     ./scsh/solaris/sysdep.h
>     ./scsh/sunos/sysdep.h
>     ./scsh/ultrix/sysdep.h
>
> If that is true, we probably should delete them to avoid confusion.
>
> However, even with this fixed, Ultrix 4.3 does not have POSIX.2 regex.h,
> so the build fails. I think there was at least one later Ultrix release,
> but it's unlikely that it added POSIX.2 stuff, so we might want to drop
> Ultrix from the 0.6 RELEASE list. If we don't want to delete it
> entirely, we might want to refer people to the scsh-0.5 if it didn't
> need POSIX regex.

I've removed support for Ultrix. I will remove the sysdep.h files in
the HEAD as soon as the work there continues.

-- 
Martin


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