Jerry> Interestingly, some old mail archives show that Martin Jerry> Buchholz tried to change Linux to use ORDINARY_LINK on Jerry> 1997-06-09, so Steve Baur didn't wait long to change it Jerry> back. Unfortunately, I don't see a message from him Jerry> explaining *why* he changed it back. *sigh* Try writing Steve <steve(a)kbuxd.necst.nec.co.jp&gt;. Martin <martin(a)xemacs.org&gt; recently reared his head; try asking him. In the meantime Just Do It. If Martin says it's "simple and effective," I'm sure it is. Change the sense of the ifdef to ifndef so that it can easily be undone if somebody runs into whatever bug bit Steve. Initial and date a comment "slb's comment seems irrelevant now; using ORDINARY_LINK pending consultation with Steve and Martin." And don't change your mail address; we'll be sending you all link problems on Linux for expert analysis. ;-) Jerry> But then again, I don't know what the issues are with Jerry> "-lPW", either. The only comment in configure.in pertaining to libPW says HP/UX has a working alloca there. Those six letters mean "Magic is loose in the world. Anything [bad] can happen!" as far as I can tell. :-) However, I don't have a libPW at all. Do you? Does anybody on Linux? At that date, Linux was still using HJ Liu libc, maybe even libc4 was prevalent. I think the risks are extremely small. -- 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

Martin Buchholz <martin(a)xemacs.org&gt; wrote: Great! Do you want to submit your patch, then? If not, I can easily whip one up. I'll ping Steve Baur in the meantime as well. -- Jerry James http://www.ittc.ku.edu/~james/