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To: Neal Becker <neal@ctd.comsat.com>
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Subject: Re: -lPW on hpux
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From: wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry)
Date: 12 Jun 1997 06:51:35 -0700
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Neal Becker <neal@ctd.comsat.com> writes:

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

  Can't you get alloca() and friends by specifying +Olibcalls with the c89
compiler?

-Bill P.

