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

[Vikas N K. <vik...@us...>]

Hi John,
my comments below.

On 12/14/06, Fay John F Dr CTR USAF AFSEO/SK <joh...@eg...> wrote:
>         It appears from the message below that the "configure" test for
> "socklen_t" fails on Sun Studio 11 compilers because they do not support
> "-Wall".  I see three options:
>
> (1)  Drop the "-Wall" flag.  I do not like this option because I like the
> compiler to warn me when things are iffy.

Actually John, the "-Wall" flag is required for the GNU compilers to
show all the warnings. The Sun Studio 11 compilers show all the
warnings by default, and the "-Wall" flag is not accepted. Hence, you
might just need to keep the "-Wall" flag for GNU compilers.

>
> (2)  Quit checking for "socklen_t" in the "configure" step.  Vijay Kumar,
> who flagged the error, supports this option.  The reasoning is that
> "socklen_t" is pretty much universal by now.

I am not sure about Windows & *BSDs in this regard. socklen_t is
present in Linux and Solaris for sure. If someone has a *BSD or
Windows and can check for the presence of socklen_t in " netinet/in.h"
and  "sys/socket.h" then we can remove it from the configure.in
script. Is plib supported on IRIX too ?
I have an IRIX 6.2 system at home but I am not sure what version of
IRIX you currently support. I can check there for socklen_t.

>
> (3)  Make the "-Wall" flag system-dependent and don't use it Sun Studio 11
> compilers.  Is such a thing possible?

yes this should be possible. If you want I can look into doing this.


Regards,
Vikas