Subject: Re: Tinderbox tyrant (wv issues)
From: Thomas Fletcher (thomasf@qnx.com)
Date: Fri Oct 13 2000 - 20:19:54 CDT
On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
> I'll fix the getopt thing again. I un-commented it out when wv separated.
> And like I said, I'll cahnge the mkstemp thing. It's in stdlib.h so I
> thought that maybe, just maybe it'd be defined across platforms as some sort
> of C standard. Silly me...
>
> Dom
You are a good man Charlie Brown!
I'll apply the patches and then watch tinderbox to see if she
goes green once more. Looks like I'll take over the role
of mother hen on this for a while.
Thanks again Dom, we'll soon see if that is enough.
Thomas
> >From: Thomas Fletcher <thomasf@qnx.com>
> >To: abiword-dev@abisource.com
> >Subject: Tinderbox tyrant (wv issues)
> >Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 08:43:20 -0400
> >
> >Geeze guys ... are we going to have to go through this
> >every couple of days =;^{
> >
> >Sam's update of wv has broken every platform except for
> >Linux. Why?
> >
> >Windows:
> > int mkstemp(char *path)
> >Doesn't exist on the Windows platform, this is a
> >traditional unix command. What windows function can
> >we use to encapsulate the creation of a temporary file
> >returning an fd to the caller?
> >
> >Windows heads (or just someone who can look up the
> >function behaviour so we can code a solution).
> >
> >BSD/BeOS/QNX:
> > evil getopt() prototype clashing
> >You'd think that we would have fixed this already given
> >the number of times that it has bitten us. Is there a
> >reason that we can't NOT PROTOTYPE getopt if config.h
> >declares HAVE_UNISTD_H ... this is the official location
> >for getopt() to be prototyped according to the Single
> >Unix Open Specification v 2 (ie XOPEN group). Otherwise
> >my suggestion is to:
> >
> >-Always use the wv internal getopt() but don't even
> >try and call it getopt() but prefix it (and all of
> >the other global variables associated with it) with
> >wv_. This would solve our compatability/header problem
> >once and for all at the cost of a little bit of lack
> >of re-use of system getopt() calls (which aren't being
> >used anyway if you link in the getopt() object file).
> >
> >Incidentally the code doesn't even use getopt() itself
> >anywhere, so why even bother with the prototype.
> >
> >Dom, as the keeper of wv would you mind commenting on
> >these things for me (us).
> >
> >Thanks,
> > Thomas
> >
> >
> >-------------------------------------------------------------
> >Thomas (toe-mah) Fletcher QNX Software Systems
> >thomasf@qnx.com Neutrino Development Group
> >(613)-591-0931 http://www.qnx.com/~thomasf
> >
> >
>
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