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From: don@grc.UUCP (Donald D. Woelz)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: problem compiling rn
Message-ID: <331@grc.UUCP>
Date: 21 Sep 89 22:52:08 GMT
Reply-To: don@grc.UUCP (Donald D. Woelz)
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Organization: GENROCO, Inc., Slinger, WI
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I am trying to compile rn, which I haven't done in a long, long time,
to bring it up to date (patch 40).  I am currently running some very
low patch level (I can't even remember which, it has been so long).

Anyway, I am having trouble building rn after applying all the patches.
There appear to be two problem areas, both related in some way to
definitions for typedef DIR.  Here is what the compiler has to say
about the situation:

	cc -c -O ngdata.c
"ngdata.c", line 187: dirp undefined
"ngdata.c", line 187: illegal indirection
*** Error code 1

and:

	cc -c -O util.c
"util.c", line 238: illegal indirection
"util.c", line 260: syntax error
"util.c", line 261: illegal character: 134 (octal)
"util.c", line 261: cannot recover from earlier errors: goodbye! (sic)
*** Error code 1

I am not well versed in the devious natures of C and the file system
structures so it leaves me unable figure out what is happening here.
Any suggestions as to what the problem might be?

I am running System V Release 3.0 on a National Semiconductor 32332 CPU.
(I know, don't tell me to get a real machine 8^).
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Don Woelz              {ames, rutgers, harvard}!uwvax!uwmcsd4!grc!don
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