On Fri 29 Oct 2004 23:35, Ed Allen Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Can you come up with a patch to the appropriate hint file
> >(hints/irix_6.sh) to deal with this?
>
> The easiest way would appear to be to add:
>
> usemallocwrap=${usemallocwrap:-false}
Small thing in advance
Though this is acceptable in a hint file, where you *know* that the system
does the commands you use, you cannot do this in general, since this is not
backward (enough) compatible.
I don't know in what version Irix introduced the support of ${...-...}, but I
have worked on systems that did not know this notation
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