Delivery-Date: Thu, 22 Jul 93 07:09:42 PDT
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 93 10:15:22 -0400
From: witr@rwwa.COM
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To: uunet!postgres.Berkeley.EDU!aoki@uunet.UU.NET (Paul M. Aoki)
Subject: Re: libdl syms routines for SVR4
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> [files full of externs :-P]

> this appears to be the case in alpha osf/1 and aix as well as svr4 :-/

This isn't all that bad, since I have programs that generate the file,
and a program that diddles the exe so that the lib doesn't get loaded,
so it is just a build feature.  I have the code for both of these that
I will send you.

P.s., you see how I bounced the BSD includes and changed Signal.
Those two things took care of *most* of the porting work, and is why I
call the port ``sensitive''.  Most of the rest of the changes were

  1) Ansification, and
  2) Build system changes.

Presuming that you have already done 1, and 2 is more rational than
the old system, a SVR4 port of 4.1 or 4.2 should be rather easy, given
my dynloading code.  Call if you want more info.

I have to deliver some code on monday and (you know how it is) none of
it is working right now, so I am looking at a weekend of ``real
work''.  I will then be in Napa for a week before I will be back in
the office...

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