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icon5.gif   Compiling elog 2.0.4 on Solaris, posted by Christian Korschan on Mon Jul 8 21:01:00 2002 
    icon2.gif   Re: Compiling elog 2.0.4 on Solaris, posted by Stefan Ritt on Tue Jul 9 09:33:47 2002 
       icon2.gif   Re: Compiling elog 2.0.4 on Solaris, posted by Christian Korschan on Wed Jul 24 17:29:00 2002 
          icon2.gif   Re: Compiling elog 2.0.4 on Solaris, posted by Joe Nall on Sat Aug 3 17:35:39 2002 
             icon2.gif   Re: Compiling elog 2.0.4 on Solaris, posted by Stefan Ritt on Tue Aug 6 16:14:42 2002 
Message ID: 91     Entry time: Tue Aug 6 16:14:42 2002     In reply to: 89
Icon: Reply  Author: Stefan Ritt  Author Email: stefan.ritt@psi.ch 
Category: Request  OS:   ELOG Version:  
Subject: Re: Compiling elog 2.0.4 on Solaris 
> > > > Comiling elogd 2.0.4 under Solaris obviously fails with
> > > > 
> > > > gcc  -o elog elog.c -lsocket -lnsl
> > > > gcc  -o elogd elogd.c -lsocket -lnsl
> > > > elogd.c: In function `ss_file_find':
> > > > elogd.c:1372: `alphasort' undeclared (first use in this function)
> > > > elogd.c:1372: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> > > > elogd.c:1372: for each function it appears in.)
> > > > make: *** [elogd] Error 1
> > > > 
> > > > because alphasort is an ucb'ism which does not exist under SYSV
> > > > 
> > > > ... not very portable :-(
> > > 
> > > I was not aware of this. Actually, I don't need 'alphasort' so I 
removed 
> it 
> > > from the source. The update is at
> > > 
> > > http://midas.psi.ch/cgi-bin/cvsweb/elog/elogd.c
> > > 
> > > Please give it a try.
> > 
> > ok - i just continued with 2.0.5, but apparently it still has an UCB'ism
> > (scandir) that does not work under SYSV:
> > 
> > $ make
> > gcc -g -o elogd elogd.c -lsocket -lnsl
> > Undefined                       first referenced
> >  symbol                             in file
> > scandir                             /tmp/ccy0Z3iV.o
> > ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to elogd
> > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> > make: *** [elogd] Error 1
> > $ egrep scandir elogd.c
> >   n = scandir(path, &namelist, NULL, NULL);
> > $ 
> I am having the same experience with ELOG 2.0.5 and Solaris 8. Any work 
> around woud be appreciated.

I removed also scandir() in the current version (right now only in CVS). The 
official release of 2.1.0 is planned for next week.
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