Re: [Plib-users] PLib compilation fails on OpenBSD

[Heikki K. <he...@sa...>]

On Sun, 8 Apr 2001, Steve Baker wrote:

> So that redirects *all* of your ioctls via some OSS emulator?  Even the ones
> that are nothing to do with sound?  Yuk!  What a *horrible* kludge!

If soundcard.h is included, I assume so. (Anyone?)

> > /usr/include/sys/ioctl.h:int    ioctl __P((int, unsigned long, ...));
> > soundcard.h gives you Linux OSS emulation.
> Hmmmm - sortof - certainly it failed to do so in this case.

I don't remember SDL having this problem. (It had problems with MMX
instead. :-)

> I wonder why only *Open* BSD suffers from this problem?  I thought all the BSD varients
> were pretty similar these days?  (I guess that's typical of a Linux user's perspective!)

There are similarities.

Although, NetBSD, I would imagine, might suffer from this thing with OSS
too. It will not complain because plib uses the native API. My SSH client
is having some problems, so I can't check this out from CVS right now.

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