[tlbuild] interact.cc and getline insanity

Mojca Miklavec mojca.miklavec.lists at gmail.com
Thu Apr 24 22:27:22 CEST 2014


On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 7:26 PM, John Bowman wrote:
> I'm willing to add the attached patch for nonPOSIX 2008 to the sources for
> one more year (sigh).
> But please put pressure on your vendors about making Solaris POSIX 2008
> compliant so we can someday
> clean up this code once and for all.
>
> Can someone please verify that it compiles on these noncompliant systems?
> Thanks!

It properly compiles on Solaris Sparc 10.

But it also enters the "else" part on Solaris 11 where getline exists.
Same on (Mac) OS X.

The bottomline is that it works (but probably not the way you wanted
it to work).

Mojca



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