Re: Problem and question

In message <[email protected]> (on 29 October 2004
23:45:31 +0200), [email protected] (H.Merijn Brand) wrote:
>On Fri 29 Oct 2004 23:35, Ed Allen Smith <[email protected]>
>wrote:
>> >Can you come up with a patch to the appropriate hint file
>> >(hints/irix_6.sh) to deal with this?
>> 
>> The easiest way would appear to be to add:
>> 
>> usemallocwrap=${usemallocwrap:-false}
>
>Small thing in advance
>
>Though this is acceptable in a hint file, where you *know* that the system
>does the commands you use, you cannot do this in general, since this is not
>backward (enough) compatible.

Understand. I am, however, certain that any version of IRIX that can use the
current hints/irix_6.sh file will support this, given that the idiom in
question is used in the hints file already.

>I don't know in what version Irix introduced the support of ${...-...}, but I
>have worked on systems that did not know this notation

I suspected there were a considerable number of those when I noted the lack
of its usage in other hints files.

	Thanks,

	-Allen

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