RE: configure-less Perl builds

[Dan Sugalski <dan@sidhe.org>]

At 04:44 PM 1/5/00 +0000, Moore, Paul wrote:
>From: Dan Sugalski [mailto:dan@sidhe.org]
> > I don't know that this is really an issue--We already require
> > ANSI C, and it defines readdir and friends.
>
>Nope, that's POSIX, not ANSI C. ANSI has no directory stuff at all. And
>what's more, MS C on Windows doesn't provide it (not that this matters, as
>Perl has a Win32 porting layer anyway...)

Really? Well, foo. Could've sworn that ANSI defined the whole standard 
library. Definitely a good reason to have simple per-platform routine 
yank-in support...

					Dan

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References to:

"Moore, Paul" <Paul.Moore@uk.origin-it.com>

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