Re: Build fails for 21.5.9 on AIX 4.3.3 with IBM compilers

Valdis> Ouch. ;) Valdis> The problem is that IBM defines a *MACRO* called 'memcpy', Valdis> and we have stuck a #ifdef/#endif inside the macro call. Valdis> As a workaround, try adding '-U__STR__' to your CFLAGS - Valdis> this will cause string.h to not do a #define for strcpy() Valdis> to __strcpy() - it uses this for automatic inlining Valdis> support. Valdis> (For the record, the same issue affects a number of other Valdis> functions defined in string.h - basically anything the Valdis> compiler knows how to inline.) Valdis> I admit having no idea what the long-term fix should be. I'm not a big fan of these "elegant" #ifdefs which break sexp movement. But in this case, the answer is obvious. There is no long-term: USE_KKCC is temporary. So forget issues of style, we should cater to AIX's compiler. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN My nostalgia for Icon makes me forget about any of the bad things. I don't have much nostalgia for Perl, so its faults I remember. Scott Gilbert c.l.py