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- From: brendan@cs.widener.edu (Brendan Kehoe)
- Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
- Subject: Re: BSD sources vs Sys V (was Re: why won't ANY code compile properly??)
- Date: 27 Jul 1992 15:20:48 -0400
- Organization: Widener University Computer Science Dept, Chester PA
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- Message-ID: <151iagINN249@betty.cs.widener.edu>
- References: <3657@vidiot.UUCP> <1992Jul19.161629.924@tous.oau.org> <1992Jul27.082614.16331@unisup1.uucp>
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- duncan@unisup1.uucp wrote:
- >Does anyone have a list of those areas in which BSD and System V differ?
- >I have found that, while getting certain BSD sources to work under System V,
- >it is often merely a case of fiddling with "#include" lines and so on.
-
- Check out the autoconf package, available on prep.ai.mit.edu in
- pub/gnu. It doesn't give you a list, per se, but it does let you create
- a software package that can build pretty painlessly on many platforms.
-
- --
- Brendan Kehoe, Sun Network Manager brendan@cs.widener.edu
- Widener University Chester, PA
- "Life is a process, and it shouldn't matter what the hardware is."
- -- Chris Langton
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