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From: edb_tom@tor.nhh.no (Tom Ivar Helbekkmo)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: patch to make M4 Sources running under MINIX (PC tested)
Message-ID: <76@tor.nhh.no>
Date: 7 Sep 89 22:30:18 GMT
References: <23326@louie.udel.EDU> <3154@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Organization: NHH, Bergen, Norway
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In article <3154@ast.cs.vu.nl>, ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes:
> In article <23326@louie.udel.EDU> XBR1YD3E%DDATHD21.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu writes:
>>Here a the patches to run the M4-macroprozessor under MINIX.
> I saw your patches after I reposted M4.   Actually, I had already made
> them and got a binary, only it did nothing.  I find that sort of thing
> quite frustrating.  Has anybody succeeded in making it behave properly?
> What's the secret?

I modified M4 to run under Minix when it was first posted.  Looking at
the posted patches, I can't see that I've done anything different --
these were the very same changes I made.  It works perfectly for me, no
problems at all.

I run a pretty straightforward Minix 1.4a, but I have changed the stdio
level 2 code a bit, to make it conform better to "standard" Unix stdio. 
That may or may not have anything to do with it, as I haven't looked
closely at how M4 handles these things.

-tih

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Tom Ivar Helbekkmo, NHH, Bergen, Norway.  Telephone:  +47-5-959205
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