[Apt-Rpm] list of various fixed solaris bugs and compile issues

[David Halik]

Now if I had actually attached it... hah... here it is.

David Halik wrote:
> I finally gave in and ended up building with gcc on our Solaris 9 boxes. 
> We normally don't like to do this, but considering how much of the coded 
> is gcc specific it would take someone (other than I) with a lot of c++ 
> knowledge to write around it. I've attached the first list of fixes that 
> I ran into while building with SunCC. It also contains the apt-rpm part 
> of Anders fix (thanks again). Hopefully some of this will benefit 
> someone down the road.
>
> The second part of this I'm only going to mention whats wrong because of 
> *cough*cough* licensing of where I got the code from. ;) Once I started 
> building with gcc I ran into two more issues. In methods/gpg.cc, the 
> function "mkdtemp" is used. This does not exist in Solaris 9's libc (I 
> think it shows up in 10 or opensolaris), so I found some existing code 
> defining it and morphed it in. The second issue was with 
> tools/genpkglist.cc and tools/gensrclist.cc. In both files the functions 
> "scandir" and "alphasort" are used, and once again they don't exist in 
> Solairs 9 libc. So I went the same route and was able to find a 
> definition for them. After that I finally had a compiled apt-rpm on 
> Solaris 9! ;)
>
> Thanks for the help guys. On a rainy day maybe I'll try and tackle this 
> again on SunCC, but for now GCC will have to do.
> -Dave
>
>   


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David Halik
Student Programmer
OSS/NBCS - OIT Rutgers
dhalik at jla.rutgers.edu
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