Re: make-3.8

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Wendy Palm <address@hidden> writes:

  wp> i finally boiled the problem down a change made 2001-05-06
  wp> to create a new macro MAKE_JOBSERVER.  this macro requires
  wp> HAVE_SA_RESTART, which is not defined in cray's <signal.h>.

HAVE_SA_RESTART is not supposed to be defined in signal.h; it's defined
by the configure script assuming that the system supports the POSIX
SA_RESTART capability.

  wp> therefore, <fcntl.h> isn't included in main.c, and line 818 in
  wp> main.c fails with O_CREAT, O_EXCL, O_WRONLY undefined.
  wp> (HAVE_FDOPEN IS defined).  explicitly including <fcntl.h>
  wp> compiles and tests correctly.

OK, I'll make that change, thanks.

  wp> also, alloca.c needs modifications.  i know many packages use
  wp> this.  where should i send the changes (i.e. _CRAY is no longer
  wp> correct, and CRAY2's no longer exist, etc.)

Good question.

I suggest sending any updates to the address@hidden mailing list.  If
they don't know where it goes, at least a large number of the people
using alloca.c probably read that list.

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