Add a check for strerr, and add in D'Arcy's strerror() code in case not

found

src/backend/port/Makefile.in

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 # be converted to Method 2.  
 #
 # IDENTIFICATION
-#    $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/port/Attic/Makefile.in,v 1.2 1997/02/28 10:57:47 momjian Exp $
+#    $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/port/Attic/Makefile.in,v 1.3 1997/03/19 02:33:29 scrappy Exp $
 #
 #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ ifndef PORTNAME
 	@false
 else
 
-OBJS = $(PORTNAME)/SUBSYS.o @INET_ATON@
+OBJS = $(PORTNAME)/SUBSYS.o @INET_ATON@ @STRERROR@
 
 all: submake SUBSYS.o
 

src/backend/port/strerror.c

@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+/*
+ * strerror - map error number to descriptive string
+ *
+ * This version is obviously somewhat Unix-specific.
+ *
+ * based on code by Henry Spencer
+ * modified for ANSI by D'Arcy J.M. Cain
+ */
+
+#include        <string.h>
+#include        <stdio.h>
+#include        <errno.h>
+
+extern const char * const sys_errlist[];
+extern int sys_nerr;
+
+const char *
+strerror(int errnum)
+{
+        static char     buf[24];
+
+        if (errnum < 0 || errnum > sys_nerr)
+        {
+                sprintf(buf, "unknown error %d", errnum);
+                return(buf);
+        }
+
+        return(sys_errlist[errnum]);
+}
+