Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Solaris compilation problem w/ asun2.0a17.2 + AFS
From: Randall S. Winchester (rsw@Glue.umd.edu)
Date: Thu Dec 11 1997 - 14:04:40 EST
I agree with what you are saying, however please note that I said;
"-lc -lucb"
It is important for others to understand the importance of this for those
times when there is no other option. You *always* want to include libc
before libucb,libBSD,libbsd,etc (Whatever your OS calles this library).
Linking with -lc *before* -lucb keeps one from getting wrong functions (The
signal() call is common problem) linked in to ones code.
Heck with Solaris 2.4 you had to link with "-lc -lucb" just to get bcopy()
bcmp() and bzero(). (I just used a #define to call the mem* equivelents,
however...)
Thus to summarize;
ucblibs are evil, evil, evil...
But if you must use them, make sure you look at libc first;
link with "-lc -lucb"
If that does not work;
You probably do not want the software.
Randall
On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Thomas Tornblom wrote:
: >
: > Try adding " -lc -L/usr/ucblib -lucb" just after -lsocket -lnsl -lwrap.
: > At our site the first thing we do when we get a new Solaris release is;
: > "cd /usr/lib;ln -s ../ucblib/libucb* ." and the we use "-lc -lucb" at the
: > end of every piece of code that uses AFS on Solaris. Too much of AFS is
: > still based on "BSD 4.2 C". There have been requests to Transarc to update
: > their code to a more POSIX implementation.....
: >
:
: >Shudder<
:
: Read after me:
:
: ucblibs are evil, evil, evil...
:
: Applications that doesn't compile without resorting to the ucblibs should either
: be rewritten or ditched!
:
: There are so many gotchas and mismatches between the standard libraries/include
: files and the ucb stuff that is almost impossible to successfully get things to
: work with them.
:
: The type "DIR" in <dirent.h> and <sys/dir.h> is the first thing that comes to
: mind, although it seems they are mostly fixed in 2.6.
:
: > Randall
: >
:
: Thomas
:
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