platform.notes.txt

伯克利做的SFTP安全文件传输协议

platform.notes.txt
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This file contains information about installing SafeTP that is
particular to various platforms.


Solaris x86
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I had to replace 'gcc -c' with 'gas' in mpn/Makefile (after configuring)
to build GMP.  (gcc was reporting assembler syntax errors.)



Linux 2.0.0, gnu libc
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__STRICT_ANSI__

  The gnu libc headers like to #define all of BIG_ENDIAN, LITTLE_ENDIAN,
  PDP_ENDIAN, and BYTE_ORDER, and then do endnianness tests of the form
  LITTLE_ENDIAN == BYTE_ORDER, etc.  This clashes with SafeTP's use of
  LITTLE_ENDIAN and BIG_ENDIAN, where one should be #defined and the
  other not #defined.

  The __STRICT_ANSI__ macro tells various files to not #define strange
  things, so they avoid clashes like this one.  I *don't* want the full
  implications of '-ansi' (I believe), so I define the macro directly.

Compile Warnings

  Linux (others?) has a signed 'int*' type as the third parameter
  to accept(), getsockname(), and getpeername(), whereas most others have
  this as unsigned.  Rather than dirty the code to solve this, I just
  let the warnings happen.