Re: libfloss on HP NonStop

[Bruno Haible]

Joachim Schmitz wrote:
> The -lfloss is being taken care of by the cc wrapper script, so nothing you
> need to be worried about.

Does everyone use this wrapper script? What if someone runs configure with
CC=c89?

> there are more of these workaround/additions now. They either provide
> feature NonStop doesn't have otherwise (e.g. adjtime, fsync, the pty
> family or alloca) or workaround implementation specifics that are just
> unusual on other platforms (e.g. Block sizes for read, write) or provide
> some extra features (e.g. the exec family, here we spread the load
> across CPUs) and also covers the slight differences across the different OS 
> releases.     

Can you tell us more about the workarounds here? alloca, fsync, truncate,
and openpty/forkpty all are already supported by gnulib.

Maybe the simplest start on all this is to evaluate how far gnulib already
covers the needs on your platform, and which gnulib tests fail.
I've prepared a testdir from today's gnulib, with the proposed changes, for you
at  http://www.haible.de/bruno/gnu/testdir.tar.gz

What compilation errors, link errors, test failures does it show with
  $ ./configure
  $ make
  $ make check
?

Bruno