Re: ksh bug on Tru64 UNIX causes current libtool failure

[Norman Gray]

Tim,

On 2005 Jun 2 , at 17.50, Tim Mooney wrote:

> In regard to: Re: ksh bug on Tru64 UNIX causes current libtool 
> failure,...:
>
> > Oooh yes; oh yes indeedy.  I've come to the conclusion that if your 
> > application builds on Tru64 and OS X, then it'll build just about 
> > anywhere.
>
> I'm surprised by this comment.  Tru64 has a more common C API than say
> AIX or IRIX, and I think HP-UX has only recently caught up some.  I've
> always found it easier to port to Tru64 than the aforementioned 
> platforms.

I can't speak for Ralf, but for me Tru64 has always been useful because 
it has an agreeably bad-tempered set of C and Fortran compilers, which 
stamp their feet and sulk at almost any sort of non-standard behaviour, 
along with a slightly quixotic set of C headers, which test how well my 
code is conditionalised for portability.

Alphas also have a store-0 rounding mode by default, which tests 
another category of portability problems.  But this is perhaps drifting 
a little off-topic for the libtool list.

All the best,

Norman


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