RE: GNU APL now requires bash shell and in-tree builds

[Alexander Shendi]

Hi list,

normally I'd be happy to look into this, but I'm afraid my C++ is virtually 
non-existent. Thank you all for your help so far.

Best Regards,

Alexander

Am 13. April 2021 02:54:32 MESZ schrieb "Callahan, Brian Robert" 
<callab5@rpi.edu>:
>Hi Jürgen --
>
>Per POSIX, bind requires the inclusion of sys/socket.h, so that should
>be in the includes list for main.cc if there is a call to bind in
>main.cc. I'm not sure we can or should assume an implicit include from
>elsewhere.
>
>https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/bind.html
>
>As for needing the scope-resolution on bind, that is something that
>someone (i.e., me or Alexander) should look further into.
>
>~Brian
>
>________________________________
>Brian Robert Callahan, Ph.D.
>Lecturer, ITWS@RPI
>Office: Lally 304
>________________________________
>From: Bug-apl [bug-apl-bounces+callab5=rpi.edu@gnu.org] on behalf of
>Dr. Jürgen Sauermann [mail@xn--jrgen-sauermann-zvb.de]
>Sent: Monday, April 12, 2021 5:47 AM
>To: Alexander Shendi; bug-apl@gnu.org
>Subject: Re: GNU APL now requires bash shell and in-tree builds
>
>Hi Alexander,
>
>thanks, fixed in SVN 1470.
>
>The bind() error is somewhat strange because:
>
>- in the same file (main.cc), accept() (a companion of bind()) works
>without :: and
>- in other files bind() also works without ::
>
>I suppose some other #include file declares bind() differently (which
>would be an error in the platform).
>
>Best Regards,
>Jürgen
>
>
>On 4/11/21 10:53 PM, Alexander Shendi wrote:
>
>Dear list,
>
>I tried out SVN 1468, but still had to modify the following files
>*   . /configure (replace "source" with ".")
>*   . /src/main.cc (replace "bind" with "::bind" on line 300
>
>Thanks in advance for your help.
>
>/Alexander
>
>Am 11. April 2021 15:26:44 MESZ schrieb "Callahan, Brian Robert"
><callab5@rpi.edu><mailto:callab5@rpi.edu>:
>
>
>Hello --
>
>In fixing Alexander's issue, I found these lines in the GNU APL
>Makefile I have never seen before:
>buildtag.hh: Makefile buildtag.sh
>       source ${top_srcdir}/buildtag.sh
>       touch $@
>
>The source command is a bash built-in and won't work on other shells,
>like OpenBSD ksh.
>
>Additionally, even with bash, this command does not work if doing an
>out-of-tree build, which is the way I have always built GNU APL and
>which autotools are supposed to make easy to do.
>
>Thanks.
>
>~Brian
>
>________________________________
>Brian Robert Callahan, Ph.D.
>Lecturer, ITWS@RPI
>Office: Lally 304
>
>
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