Re: [bug-inetutils] compiling inetutils on AIX 51

[Jeff Bailey]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 04:39:30PM +0300, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:

> > 2) in telnetd/telnetd.h, you use the macro P for parameter lists.

> Moreover, some headers use P(), others use __P(). The use of the
> declaration wrappers has to be standartized throughout the
> package. 

I'm inclined to say K&R is dead and get rid of them all.  HPUX and SunOS
both compile GCC just fine (And everything else cross-compiles to those
targets easily enough)

> > 3) we don't seem to have error.h on AIX, so as a quick workaround I
> > put a static fake error (..) function into xmalloc.c.

> Yes, this has recently been fixed in the repository.

I need to double check that this has been propogated into gnulib, and
then do another update.  There's been alot of changes in the portability
functions recently.

I odn't know why I'm having so much trouble feeling motivated to just
sit down and hack on Inetutils. =(

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