Jim Meyering wrote:
However, I confess I don't know enough about the alternatives
you mention (below) to say if it's worth pursuing.
> Another, less appealing, is to look at some of the modern XDR library
> replacements. Uli suggested one, but I've lost the link at the
> moment... Of course that involves porting those libraries to Mac and
> Windows, which may be a load of effort in itself.
It's TI-RPC.
Unfortunately the licensing of TI-RPC is very confused (see section 3.13
"Other SunRPC libraries, TI-RPC" of
http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/secure_rpc/).
In any case it would involve a bunch of extra porting work, so it's
easier just to fix the missing xdr_quad_t type.
Rich.
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