Re: native-lib errors on IRIX

[Andreas Tobler <toa@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Andreas Tobler wrote:
> Paul Jenner wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 19:28 +0200, Christian Thalinger wrote:
> > > We have some problems building current CVS heads with tgolem on an IRIX
> > > machine.  The problems are located in native-lib, like:
> > >
> > > cc-1020 cc: ERROR File = cpnet.c, Line = 260
> > >   The identifier "SOCKET_NOSIGNAL" is undefined.
> > >
> > >       ret = send(fd, data, len, SOCKET_NOSIGNAL);
> > >                                 ^
> > > or
> > >
> > > cc-1136 cc: ERROR File = cpnet.c, Line = 613
> > >   Too many arguments in function call.
> > >
> > >           ret = gethostbyname_r (hostname, &hret, buf, buflen, 
> > > &result, &herr);
> > > - twisti
> > >
> > >                                                                         
> > > ^
> > > Any ideas how to fix these issues, especially the gethostbyname_r one?
> >
> > Guess you found it already but did you see patch to fix these issues on
> > other platforms from Andreas Tobler recently:
> >
> > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/commit-classpath/2006-08/msg00272.html
> >
> > Looks like it didn't fix it for IRIX but maybe he has some ideas?
>
> Problem is, that only linux, darwin and FreeBSD support a usable flag 
> for this kind of call. I did not find a solution for other archs and my 
> sparc and hpuxen will also fail when cp gets reimported to gcc.

Side notice, they won't muck up since we use gcj native stuff and not cp 
 native stuff.

Andreas