Re: [jamboost] Re: Use of _exit() in execunix.c?

From: Rene Rivera (grafik.list_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-08-01 08:21:15

Vladimir Prus wrote:
> On Sunday 31 July 2005 18:27, Rene Rivera wrote:
> 
>>Craig Rodrigues wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>Maybe this was there before and I just never paid attention to it.
>>>I recently did a cvs update and compiled bjam
>>>on MacOS X 10.4 and saw this compiler warning:
>>>
>>>execunix.c: In function 'execcmd':
>>>execunix.c:153: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in
>>>function '_exit'
>>>
>>>
>>>_exit() is defined in <unistd.h>.
>>>Can we unconditionally include <unistd.h> in this file? <unistd.h>
>>>is a fairly standard Unix header file.
>>
>>As it turns out the answer to that is "no". The file is failing to build
>>on platforms that don't have the header. So it must be included
>>conditionally.
> 
> 
> Can you name the platforms that miss that header? (Assuming we don't wont to 
> use autoconf ;-) )

Unfortunately I can't name all of them. All I know is that it doesn't 
work with MSVC. As that's what was reported by users. I was going to go 
the other way and include it for MACOSX and SUNOS which are the ones we 
know it's needed so far. But CVS went down yesterday :-( ... I'm trying 
again now.

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