# Martijn Koster <m.koster@webcrawler.com>
# Richard Yeh <rcyeh@cco.caltech.edu>
#
+# Disable shadow password file access: MT 4.1.1 has necessary library
+# functions, but not header file (or documentation)
+# -- Dominic Dunlop <domo@computer.org> 990804
# For now, explicitly disable dynamic loading -- MT 4.1.1 has it,
# but these hints do not yet support it.
# Define NOTEDEF_MACHTEN to undo gratuitous Tenon hack to signal.h.
#
# Comments, questions, and improvements welcome!
#
+# MachTen 4.1.1's support for shadow password file access is incomplete:
+# disable its use completely.
+d_endspent=${d_endspent:-undef}
+d_getspent=${d_getspent:-undef}
+d_getspnam=${d_getspnam:-undef}
+d_setspent=${d_setspent:-undef}
+
# MachTen 4.1.1 does support dynamic loading, but perl doesn't
# know how to use it yet.
usedl=${usedl:-undef}
select the default answer: vfork() works, and avoids expensive data
copying.
+You may also see "WHOA THERE!!!" messages concerning \$d_endspent,
+\$d_getspent, \$d_getspnam and \$d_setspent. In all cases, select the
+default answer: MachTen's support for shadow password file access is
+incomplete, and should not be used.
+
At the end of Configure, you will see a harmless message
Hmm...You had some extra variables I don't know about...I'll try to keep 'em.