Newsgroups: news.admin
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: cnews on system V
Message-ID: <1989Sep13.155702.21898@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1598@hjuxa.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 89 15:57:02 GMT

In article <1598@hjuxa.UUCP> pzl@hjuxa.UUCP (Twisted Systems Inc.) writes:
>I have been trying to get C News to build and install on a System V.3
>based system without much success. For starters, the Makefiles
>gag on the test command. ("cannot load test").
>Can anyone whos perhaps done a system V.3 based build send me some
>hints/pointers...

Unfortunately, "System V.3" isn't specific enough.  One of the systems we
used for internal alpha testing is a V.3, or claims to be.  The distributed
stuff works fine there.

Many System V "make"s violate the SVID by malfunctioning when presented with
commands that are normally implemented as shell built-ins.  The semicolons
on the ends of the "test" lines prevent that in most of them.  (If those
lines don't have semicolons, you are badly behind on C News patches and
should get an up-to-date version of the software.)
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