Re: HP-UX patches

[Mark . Burgess]

On 25 Feb, Tim Auckland wrote:
> I've had some trouble compiling cfengine on HP-UX.
> 
> I ended up having to make two changes:
> 
> The first is because I don't have a libPW on this system.  I'm not sure
> what it is supposed to do, but cfengine appears to run fine without it
> (to be a usable patch, this would need to be translated into a change to
> configure.in of course).
> 
> --- cfengine-2.0.b2/configure.orig    Tue Feb 19 04:24:00 2002
> +++ cfengine-2.0.b2/configure Fri Feb 22 18:46:18 2002
> @@ -6669,7 +6669,7 @@
>  EOF
>  
>          fi
> -        LIBS="$LIBS -lc -lPW"
> +        LIBS="$LIBS -lc"
>          ;;
>     aix*)
>       cat >>confdefs.h <<\EOF


I cannot remember why PW was needed. I shall comment it out and see
if someone complains.


> 
> The second change, is to include HP in the list of OS's for which
> alloca.h is required.  HP's professional C compiler needs this because
> alloca() is a macro.  This wouldn't affect gcc users.
> 
> --- cfengine-2.0.b2/src/cfparse.c~    Tue Feb 19 11:11:35 2002
> +++ cfengine-2.0.b2/src/cfparse.c     Fri Feb 22 18:50:47 2002
> @@ -307,7 +307,7 @@
>  #ifdef __GNUC__
>  #define alloca __builtin_alloca
>  #else /* not GNU C.  */
> -#if (!defined (__STDC__) && defined (sparc)) || defined (__sparc__) ||
> defined (__sparc) || defined (__sgi)
> +#if (!defined (__STDC__) && defined (sparc)) || defined (__sparc__) ||
> defined (__sparc) || defined (__sgi) || defined (__hpux)
>  #include <alloca.h>
>  #else /* not sparc */
>  #if defined (MSDOS) && !defined (__TURBOC__)
> 

It does not make sense to patch this file because it is generated
by bison/yacc. Perhaps you need to upgrade your version of that
software? Or is there another way the presence of this can be tested?

Mark

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