[ldapvi] Portability issue: setenv missing on Solaris 8

David Lichteblau david at lichteblau.com
Wed Mar 26 12:09:56 CET 2008


Hi,

Quoting Dagobert Michelsen (dam at blastwave.org):
> I am trying to build a package for ldapvi for Blastwave
> which requires building on Solaris 8. Unfortunately
> Solaris 8 doesn't have setenv which is used in ldapvi.
> It would be better to check for the presence of
> setenv during configure and substitute it with putenv
> from gnulib if necessary. See for details
>    <http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/MODULES.html#module=setenv>

do you have a patch for me or should I try to write a patch and send it
to you for testing?  I don't currently have access to Solaris, so I
wouldn't be able to test this myself.

Gnulib shouldn't be needed if Solaris has putenv.  We could just call
putenv instead of setenv.


Thanks,
d.



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