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diff --git a/coreutils-5.3.0-bin/contrib/gawk/3.1.6/gawk-3.1.6-src/README_d/README.solaris b/coreutils-5.3.0-bin/contrib/gawk/3.1.6/gawk-3.1.6-src/README_d/README.solaris new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4b5affd --- /dev/null +++ b/coreutils-5.3.0-bin/contrib/gawk/3.1.6/gawk-3.1.6-src/README_d/README.solaris @@ -0,0 +1,138 @@ +Solaris Problem #1: +=================== +From: carson@lehman.com +Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1997 01:05:58 -0500 +To: arnold@gnu.ai.mit.edu +Subject: Solaris 2.5.1 x86 bug in gawk-3.0.2 + +awktab.c has the following bogus logic: + +#ifndef alloca +#ifdef __GNUC__ +#define alloca __builtin_alloca +#else /* not GNU C. */ +#if (!defined (__STDC__) && defined (sparc)) || defined (__sparc__) || defined (__sparc) || defined (__sgi) +#include <alloca.h> +#else /* not sparc */ + +Solaris x86 obviously dosn't define sparc or __sparc. + +What you _meant_ to say was: + +if (defined(__sun) && defined(__SVR4)) + +(which identifies Solaris 2.x under both Sun's cc and gcc) + +-- +Carson Gaspar -- carson@cs.columbia.edu carson@lehman.com +http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~carson/home.html +<This is the boring business .sig - no outre sayings here> + + * * * * * * * + +Solution to Problem #1: +======================= +Tue Oct 20 21:25:11 IST 1998 + +This has been fixed in 3.1.0 with the bisonfix.sed script. + +Arnold Robbins +arnold@skeeve.com + +Solaris Problem #2: +=================== +Tue Apr 13 16:57:45 IDT 1999 + +There is a known problem in that the `manyfiles' test will fail under +Solaris if you set your soft limit on the number of file descriptors to +above 256. This is due to a "feature" of fdopen that an fd must be +less than 256 (see fdopen(3)). + +IMHO this is Sun's problem, not mine. + +Arnold Robbins +arnold@skeeve.com + +Solution (a) to Problem #2: +=========================== +Now fixed in the code via Paul Eggert's 2001-09-0 patch. See the +ChangeLog. + +Solution (b) to Problem #2: +=========================== +From: Paul Nevai <nevai@math.ohio-state.edu> +Subject: Re: gawk-3.0.4 +To: arnold@skeeve.com (Aharon Robbins) +Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 09:09:05 -0400 (EDT) + +Dear Aharon: + +Toda raba. Why don't you add something like that to README_d/README.solaris +file: + +for the SunOS do in + +/bin/sh: ulimit -n 256; ulimit -a; make test +/bin/tcsh: limit descriptors 256; ulimit -a; make test + +otherwise "make test" will fail + +Shalom, Paul + +Aharon Robbins wrote to Paul Nevai: +# >From the README_d/README.solaris file: +# +# Tue Apr 13 16:57:45 IDT 1999 +# +# There is a known problem in that the `manyfiles' test will fail under +# Solaris if you set your soft limit on the number of file descriptors to +# above 256. This is due to a "feature" of fdopen that an fd must be +# less than 256 (see fdopen(3)). +# +# IMHO this is Sun's problem, not mine. +# +# Arnold Robbins +# arnold@skeeve.com +# +# Double check your settings with ulimit; I suspect that this is +# your problem. +# +# Thanks, +# +# Arnold +# -- +# Aharon (Arnold) Robbins arnold@skeeve.com [ <<=== NOTE: NEW ADDRESS!! ] +# P.O. Box 354 Home Phone: +972 8 979-0381 Fax: +1 603 761-6761 +# Nof Ayalon Cell Phone: +972 51 297-545 (See www.efax.com) +# D.N. Shimshon 99784 Laundry increases exponentially in the +# ISRAEL number of children. -- Miriam Robbins +# +# + + + +Paul Nevai pali+@osu.edu +Department of Mathematics nevai@math.ohio-state.edu +The Ohio State University http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/~nevai/ +231 West Eighteenth Avenue http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/~jat/ +Columbus, Ohio 43210-1174 1-614-292-5310 (Office/Answering Device) +The United States of America 1-614-292-1479 (Math Dept Fax) + +Solaris Problem #3: +=================== +Sun Feb 9 10:35:51 IST 2003 + +Certain versions of Sun C give compilation errors under Solaris 5.5, 5.6 and +possibly later. Here's what I was told: + +> We have this version of cc here: +> cc -V +> cc: Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 C 5.2 2000/09/11 +> +> Probably, the others use different combinations of OS and CC. +> A quick fix was this (we use csh-syntax here): +> +> setenv CC "/opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc -Xc" +> ./configure +> make check + |