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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Problems running the C compiler on a 3B2
Message-ID: <1990Oct06.012514.8466@virtech.uucp>
Date: 6 Oct 90 01:25:14 GMT
References: <255@dean1.usma.edu>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc., Sterling VA
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In article <255@dean1.usma.edu> aj4640@dean1.acd.usma.edu writes:
>While running the makefile that came with the X11R4 release tape
>(from mit), several files failed to compile, exiting with
>error messages that said "too many defines" and "no space".
>
>These are preprocessor messages I think.  THe files are OK and 
>don't appear to have any recursive includes.  I've plenty of
>disk space.  Cany anyone help with the cause?  the cure?

The cause is that your vender (AT&T in this case) compiled cpp with
table sizes that are too small.  (The tables keep track of the #defines,
and other such stuff).

This is a typical problem (when I used to port an office automation
package we ran into this problem on many systems and usually had to 
bring along our own cpp.

A solution for you would be to get the gnu-cpp that comes with GCC and
compile that piece to use instead of the standard cpp.  (I'm not sure
if GCC has been ported to a 3b2, but that shouldn't matter since all you
need is the cpp).


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