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J. David Blackstone has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering and nine years of experience at a wireless telecommunications company, where he learned Perl and never looked back. J. David has an advantage in that he works really hard, he has a passion for writing good software, and he knows many of the world's best Perl programmers.

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Friday July 07, 2006
01:13 PM

perl Configure decides to use string.h?

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Anyone know real quick what causes perl's Configure process to decide to emit the following line?

Using <string.h> instead of <strings.h>.

I think it is a mistake in our case, because string.h is C++. It's very definitely causing a compilation failure on a new machine that's probably been misconfigured. :)

Update: Never mind, this seems to be appropriate behavior, but this inappropriate system has a C++ /usr/local/include/string.h which is interfering with the compiler's ability to find the correct, C, /usr/include/string.h. I hope nobody notices that we moved /usr/local/include to /usr/local/include.old


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  • I saw your "never mind", but thought to comment anyway. has memcpy() while has bcopy(), and so forth.
    • > has memcpy() while has bcopy(), and so forth.

      Oh, bugger.

      <string.h> has memcpy() while <strings.h> has bcopy(), and so forth.

      • Eek. So I should pretty much never see strings.h in the environment I'm in.

        This turned out fun as my sysadmin moved /usr/local/include completely out of the way to compile, and then I got a phone call Friday afternoon after I left the office because that broke a lot of things. :)

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        J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers
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