g++ 2.8 works OK and newer egcs work well also. Nobody has tried it
on other compilers :< You will need a properly working STL as well.
- A C library with the usual POSIX functions and a BSD socket layer.
- If you OS conforms to the Single User Spec then you are fine:
+ If your OS conforms to the Single Unix Spec then you are fine:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/index.html
+ - Refer to the Build-Depends information in debian/control for
+ additional requirements (some of which are Debian-specific)
+
+** NOTICE **
+The C++ global constructors do not link correctly when using non-shared
+libraries. This is probably the correct behavior of the linker, but I have
+not yet had time to devise a work around for it. The correct thing to
+do is add a reference to debSystem in apt-pkg/init.cc,
+assert(&debSystem == 0) would be fine for instance.
Guidelines
~~~~~~~~~~
to make the code that already exists conform more to SUS or POSIX, but
I don't really care if your not-SUS OS doesn't work. It is simply too
much work to maintain patches for dysfunctional OSs. I highly suggest you
-contact your vendor and express intrest in a conforming C library.
+contact your vendor and express interest in a conforming C library.
-That said, there are lots of finniky problems that must be delt with even
+That said, there are lots of finicky problems that must be dealt with even
between the supported OS's. Primarily the path I choose to take is to put
a shim header file in build/include that transparently adds the required
functionality. Patches to make autoconf detect these cases and generate the
required shims are OK.
Current shims:
- * C9x integer types 'inttypes.h'
- * sys/statvfs.h to convert from BSD statfs to SUS statvfs
+ * sys/statvfs.h to convert from BSD/old-glibc statfs to SUS statvfs
* rfc2553 hostname resolution (methods/rfc*), shims to normal gethostbyname.
+ The more adventurous could steal the KAME IPv6 enabled resolvers for those
+ OS's with IPv6 support but no rfc2553 (why?)
+ * define _XOPEN_EXTENDED_SOURCE to bring in h_errno on HP-UX
+ * socklen_t shim in netdb.h if the OS does not have socklen_t
-The only completely non-shimed OS is Linux with glibc2.1
+The only completely non-shimmed OS is Linux with glibc2.1, glibc2.0 requires
+the first three shims.
Platform Notes
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Debian GNU Linux 2.1 'slink'
Debian GNU Linux 'potato'
+Debian GNU Linux 'woody'
* All Archs
- Works flawlessly
- - You will want to have debiandoc-sgml and yodl installed to get
+ - You will want to have docbook-xml and docbook2man installed to get
best results.
- - No IPv6 Support in glibc's < 2.1
+ - No IPv6 Support in glibc's < 2.1.
Sun Solaris
SunOS cab101 5.7 Generic_106541-04 sun4u sparc
+ SunOS csu201 5.8 Generic_108528-04 sun4u sparc
- Works fine
- Note, no IPv6 Support, OS lacks RFC 2553 hostname resolution
-
+
+OpenBSD
+ OpenBSD gsb086 2.5 CMPUT#0 i386 unknown
+ OpenBSD csu101 2.7 CMPUT#1 i386 unknown
+ - OS needs 'ranlib' to generate the symbol table after 'ar'.. (not using
+ GNU ar with the gnu tool chain :<)
+ - '2.5' does not have RFC 2553 hostname resolution, but '2.7' does
+ - Testing on '2.7' suggests the OS has a bug in its handling of
+ ftruncate on files that have been written via mmap. It fills the page
+ that crosses the truncation boundary with 0's.
+
HP-UX
HP-UX nyquist B.10.20 C 9000/780 2016574337 32-user license
- Evil OS, does not conform very well to SUS
- 1) snprintf exists but is not prototyped, ignore spurios warnings
+ 1) snprintf exists but is not prototyped, ignore spurious warnings
2) No socklen_t
3) Requires -D_XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED for h_errno
- Items 2 and 3 have to be fixed by hand. Insert this into
- build/include/netdb.h:
-
- #define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
- #define socklen_t size_t
- #include_next <netdb.h>
-
- A similar techinque can be used for snprintf/vsprintf if you dislike
- the warnings
+ configure should fix the last two (see above)
- Note, no IPv6 Support, OS lacks RFC 2553 hostname resolution
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