Re: [Plib-devel] patch for compiling on Solaris 10

[Fay J. F Dr C. U. AFSEO/SK <joh...@eg...>]

Vikas,

	I'm a little confused about the "socklen_t" problem you mention.  I
looked around the Linux system header files a bit and find

#ifndef __socklen_t_defined
typedef __socklen_t socklen_t
#endif

The only place I see "socklen_t" used in PLIB is in "netSocket.cxx", where
it is defined to be "int" under MSVC if it has not already been defined.  As
such, perhaps the problem lies with the "configure" adding that flag to your
compile line.  Does anybody know what causes it?

	I am similarly confused by the addition of "(char *)" to the
"strstr" call in netChat.cxx.  The "strstr" function already returns a value
of type "char *" so the cast should be unnecessary.  Is there something
about the Sun Studio 11 compiler that is nonstandard?  If there is, I will
certainly be willing to add the explicit cast, but if not I would just as
soon leave it out.  (Perhaps we should use a "#ifdef UL_BB" block here.)

John F. Fay
Technical Fellow
Jacobs/Sverdrup TEAS Group
850-883-1294 
-----Original Message-----
From: pli...@li...
[mailto:pli...@li...] On Behalf Of Vikas N Kumar
Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2006 2:24 AM
To: pli...@li...
Subject: [Plib-devel] patch for compiling on Solaris 10

Hi
To compile with the Sun Studio 11 compilers on Solaris 10 on a SPARC I
had to do the following changes to make plib compile cleanly.
When I run configure, the flag "-Dsocklen_t=int" is added to my
compile line for all files. Hence I have to undefine it in 2 files to
get them to compile properly since socklen_t is defined as a typedef
of "uint32_t" in those files.

Regards,
Vikas


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