Re: libwww-perl v0.40 question
Fred Douglis (douglis@research.att.com)
Tue, 23 May 1995 11:51:05 -0400
Thanks for your response, and your query about others using IRIX. Seems no
one in the world on this list, or at least currently paying attention to it,
must be using IRIX, or even Solaris...
I think I have answered my own question, after consulting the perl FAQ. It
mentioned sockets not working on solaris and it seems the same problem arises
on IRIX: namely, that libwww comes with its own sys/socket.ph which defines
SOCK_STREAM to be 1 even though IRIX and Solaris actually moved it to 2.
(Why, why, why???)
I got a clue toward this by switching back to v0.20 and seeing that it was
complaining about not being able to bind, as opposed to hitting the undefined
FS return. Changing the constant to 2 did the trick, as a stopgap measure.
What's the right long-term solution for libwww?
I should point out, I found out a while ago that "get" didn't work properly on
solaris either, but didn't pay much attention to it then. Changing the
constant fixes it there too.
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