Dynixptx hints

Before I say anything else, let me say that the O'Reilly Perl Conference
was super!

In compiling Perl5.004_1 on our Sequent boxes running DYNIX/ptx 4.0 V4.2.1
we found that we had to add the following ccflags and cppflags to get the
sockets io to work.

 cppflags='-Wc,+abi-socket -I/usr/local/include'
 ccflags='-Wc,+abi-socket -I/usr/local/include'

This also could have been set by setting an environment variable
_SEQUENT_CC_=-Wc,+abi-socket
before compiling.

I have attached an snippet of the socket(3N) man pages as well.  This also
must be noted when compiling and adding other modules as well.

p5p-msgid: Pine.PTX.3.95.971002104651.12112G-200000@lancelot.aps.org

diff --git a/hints/dynixptx.sh b/hints/dynixptx.sh
index 55824f6..78a45e4 100644 (file)
--- a/hints/dynixptx.sh
+++ b/hints/dynixptx.sh
@@ -15,3 +15,10 @@ libswanted=`echo $libswanted | sed -e 's/ inet / /'`
 # Configure defaults to usenm='y', which doesn't work very well
 usenm='n'
 
+# Reported by bruce@aps.org ("Bruce P. Schuck") as needed for
+# DYNIX/ptx 4.0 V4.2.1 to get socket i/o to work
+# Not defined by default in case they break other versions.
+# These probably need to be worked into a piece of code that
+# checks for the need for this setting.
+# cppflags='-Wc,+abi-socket -I/usr/local/include'
+# ccflags='-Wc,+abi-socket -I/usr/local/include'