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There are some outstanding problems regarding net-misc/whois under |
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sparc-solaris: |
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1) missing libraries while linking on Solaris |
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2) NLS not working (try 'LC_ALL=fr whois foo') |
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3) long options not supported (try 'whois --verbose') |
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My patch solves all of them at least under Solaris 10. I suppose 2) and |
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3) are general issues in Gentoo Prefix, so perhaps someone else should |
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check if it works on other platforms, too. |
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My patch contains several flaws, particularly mkpasswd is needlessly |
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linked with -l{nls,socket} and libraries are passed through LDFLAGS. But |
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solving at least one of them would require a new 'files/whois-*.patch'. |
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This would make the patches against Whois' Makefile almost bigger than |
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the Makefile itself, which is one of the worst pieces of code I have |
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ever seen. :-/ |