Solaris Problem #1: =================== From: carson@lehman.com Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1997 01:05:58 -0500 To: arnold@gnu.ai.mit.edu Subject: Solaris 2.5.1 x86 bug in gawk-3.0.2 awktab.c has the following bogus logic: #ifndef alloca #ifdef __GNUC__ #define alloca __builtin_alloca #else /* not GNU C. */ #if (!defined (__STDC__) && defined (sparc)) || defined (__sparc__) || defined (__sparc) || defined (__sgi) #include <alloca.h> #else /* not sparc */ Solaris x86 obviously dosn't define sparc or __sparc. What you _meant_ to say was: if (defined(__sun) && defined(__SVR4)) (which identifies Solaris 2.x under both Sun's cc and gcc) -- Carson Gaspar -- carson@cs.columbia.edu carson@lehman.com http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~carson/home.html <This is the boring business .sig - no outre sayings here> * * * * * * * Solution to Problem #1: ======================= Tue Oct 20 21:25:11 IST 1998 This has been fixed in 3.1.0 with the bisonfix.sed script. Arnold Robbins arnold@skeeve.com Solaris Problem #2: =================== Tue Apr 13 16:57:45 IDT 1999 There is a known problem in that the `manyfiles' test will fail under Solaris if you set your soft limit on the number of file descriptors to above 256. This is due to a "feature" of fdopen that an fd must be less than 256 (see fdopen(3)). IMHO this is Sun's problem, not mine. Arnold Robbins arnold@skeeve.com Solution (a) to Problem #2: =========================== Now fixed in the code via Paul Eggert's 2001-09-0 patch. See the ChangeLog. Solution (b) to Problem #2: =========================== From: Paul Nevai <nevai@math.ohio-state.edu> Subject: Re: gawk-3.0.4 To: arnold@skeeve.com (Aharon Robbins) Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 09:09:05 -0400 (EDT) Dear Aharon: Toda raba. Why don't you add something like that to README_d/README.solaris file: for the SunOS do in /bin/sh: ulimit -n 256; ulimit -a; make test /bin/tcsh: limit descriptors 256; ulimit -a; make test otherwise "make test" will fail Shalom, Paul Aharon Robbins wrote to Paul Nevai: # >From the README_d/README.solaris file: # # Tue Apr 13 16:57:45 IDT 1999 # # There is a known problem in that the `manyfiles' test will fail under # Solaris if you set your soft limit on the number of file descriptors to # above 256. This is due to a "feature" of fdopen that an fd must be # less than 256 (see fdopen(3)). # # IMHO this is Sun's problem, not mine. # # Arnold Robbins # arnold@skeeve.com # # Double check your settings with ulimit; I suspect that this is # your problem. # # Thanks, # # Arnold # -- # Aharon (Arnold) Robbins arnold@skeeve.com [ <<=== NOTE: NEW ADDRESS!! ] # P.O. Box 354 Home Phone: +972 8 979-0381 Fax: +1 603 761-6761 # Nof Ayalon Cell Phone: +972 51 297-545 (See www.efax.com) # D.N. Shimshon 99784 Laundry increases exponentially in the # ISRAEL number of children. -- Miriam Robbins # # Paul Nevai pali+@osu.edu Department of Mathematics nevai@math.ohio-state.edu The Ohio State University http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/~nevai/ 231 West Eighteenth Avenue http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/~jat/ Columbus, Ohio 43210-1174 1-614-292-5310 (Office/Answering Device) The United States of America 1-614-292-1479 (Math Dept Fax) Solaris Problem #3: =================== Sun Feb 9 10:35:51 IST 2003 Certain versions of Sun C give compilation errors under Solaris 5.5, 5.6 and possibly later. Here's what I was told: > We have this version of cc here: > cc -V > cc: Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 C 5.2 2000/09/11 > > Probably, the others use different combinations of OS and CC. > A quick fix was this (we use csh-syntax here): > > setenv CC "/opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc -Xc" > ./configure > make check
