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diff --git a/README_d/README.solaris b/README_d/README.solaris index c5829643..60b7a42a 100644 --- a/README_d/README.solaris +++ b/README_d/README.solaris @@ -5,143 +5,3 @@ not gawk. Arnold Robbins arnold@skeeve.com - ------- Stuff below here is probably only of historical interest ---------- -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 - |