Re: Portability police vs. Enlightenment

["Geoff Harrison (mandrake)" <mandrake mandrake net>]

On Fri, Sep 25, 1998 at 11:36:10AM -0400, Brandon S. Allbery wrote:
> In message <19980925111156.B7333@mandrake.net>, "Geoff Harrison (mandrake)" wri
> tes:
> +-----
> | didn't think it was actually a problem.  most systems actually have wait3()
> | (to the best of my knowledge) but the stat-collecting stuff never happened,
> +--->8
> 
> But the configure check tests to see if stats actually exist.  On Solaris 
> 2.5.1 (at least), they don't, so the configure check fails.
> 
> I also found wait3() hiding in gnome-core this morning, and it made the 
> autobuild (I need to clean up my script...) fall over because I had replaced 
> the previous nonportable code with waitpid().  Oy.

Really?  I have wait3() stuff compiling under solaris 2.5.1.
using sparc C and using gcc.

the later cvs versions no longer require wait3() however.

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