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[Jeffrey R. Lewis]

Doug McIlroy wrote:

> During a vanilla install of hugs 1.4 on Linux 2.2.17,
> using the unix configure procedure, I encountered the
> following anomalies.  They may be moot, since 1.4 is not
> the latest version of hugs.
>
> Loader flag -ldl had to be added to Makefile in order to
> get dlopen from the library.
>
> snprintf and vsnprintf are in stdio.h, but
> HAVE_SNPRINTF and HAVE_VSNPRINTF were missing
> from config.h, which resulted in conflicting
> declarations.  I added the two #defines.
>
> The datatype of fpos_t is a struct, not an integral type.
> I got around it by 3 small (unportable) changes to iomonad.c.
>
> Make install bombed because I did not own $(bindir)
> and $(libdir) and thus could not chmod them.  Removing
> install -d for these directories fixed the problem.

Unfortunately, `install -d' insists on doing `chmod 0755', even if the directory exists - this is annoying if the directory was group writable before you installed hugs ;-)

`mkdir -p' would be an improvement over `install -d'.

--Jeff