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To: "Barry Friedman" <friedman@nortel.ca>
Cc: neal@ctd.comsat.com (Neal Becker), xemacs-beta@xemacs.org, mrb@Eng.Sun.COM
Subject: Re: No -lPW please
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From: wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry)
Date: 22 Jul 1997 06:10:21 -0700
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"Barry Friedman" <friedman@nortel.ca> writes:

> Neal Becker wrote:
> > 
> > It seems that -lPW is back with b14 on hpux9.05.  Is that because I
> > had trouble with patching up configure?  (I wish someone would mail me 
> > a current b14 configure).
> > 
> > Please don't use -lPW on hpux.  It is evil.
> > 
> > 
> 
> It's back because there isn't any other alloca that I know of and
> hp-c89 fails to compile without one.
> 
> The inclusion of -lPW should be compiler dependent and only included
> in the link for the lib-src directory where the compile fails otherwise.
> 
> Any other solutions gratefully accepted.

  There is a command line switch you can pass to cc/c89 that will enable
the use of alloca() without linking with any other libraries.  I can try to
dig this up when I get in to work (I don't generally carry an HP box on the
bus :)

-Bill P.

