arla patches for NT/cygwin32

Assar Westerlund assar at sics.se
Sun Mar 29 03:28:10 CEST 1998


Dan Winship <danw at MIT.EDU> writes:
> cygwin32 is pretty cool. I got arlad -t running under NT without too
> much work...
> 
> You'll need to add in the right autoheader magic to make it #define
> O_BINARY to 0 on platforms that don't have it. (I've never played with
> autoheader and I figured you could probably deal more easily than I
> could.)

Thinking more about it the right place is lib/roken/roken.h.  I added
it there.

> I'm not sure why the HAVE_WINSOCK_H thing was there... it made
> everything break, so I had to remove it and then it all worked fine.
> (Oh, but I forget to remove the check from the configure script.)

Ok.  Got that.

> I don't know if there's any hope for getting xfs or some equivalent to
> work under NT, but I'm planning to show this to some NT programmer
> types here who are currently really annoyed with Transarc for being so
> fascist about the NT AFS client (no site license, no source
> license)... :-)

Hm.  We'll see what happens. :)

Thanks for your patches.

/assar





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