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From: Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM>
To: Neal Becker <neal@ctd.comsat.com>
Cc: xemacs-beta@xemacs.org
Subject: -lPW on hpux
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Reply-To: Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM>

>>>>> "Neal" == Neal Becker <Neal> writes:

Neal> I just tried configuring b6 on hpux9.05.  It adds -lPW to link.  On
Neal> hpux9 (at least) -lPW has some undesirable crap in it (I've forgotten
Neal> what) and should be avoided.  AFAIK, it's only useful if you need
Neal> alloca.  You don't if you build with gcc.  But -lPW has some stuff
Neal> that overides stuff in libc.  If you really have to, you can say -lc
Neal> -lPW -lc.  But if all you want is alloca, there's better alternatives.

Checking for -lPW was a kind of experiment.  It's in some of the s&m
files, and to atone for my sin of removing it therefrom, I decided to
add a test to configure.  Does anyone know of any reason why we
*would* want to link with -lPW?  If not, it's being removed next beta.

Martin

