scandir on solaris 9

[Joerg Schilling]

Riccardo Mottola <rmottola at opencsw.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> in the maze of libcairo upgrade, which I'd like on solaris 9 too, I got 
> entangled in fontconfig.
>
> I got this:
> checking for lstat... yes
> checking for posix_fadvise... no
> checking for scandir... configure: error:
> *** No scandir function available.
> gmake[1]: *** 
> [configure-work/build-isa-sparcv8/fontconfig-2.11.0/configure] Error 1
> gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/home/rmottola/opencsw/fontconfig/trunk'
>
>
> did you guys already had experience with scandir during solaris 8/9 
> times? Apparently there is the UCB version, while later it was moved 
> directly into libc.

scandir() was not part of the POSIX standard before 2008.

A program that requires scandir() is written in a portable way should be fixed
inline instead of trying to find a workaround.

Jörg

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