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From: nall@sun8.scri.fsu.edu (John Nall)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: cppmake and Minix 1.5.10
Keywords: cppmake
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Date: 26 Oct 90 13:32:32 GMT
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In article <3276@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU> cechew@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU (Earl Chew) writes:
>cppmake will be rejuvenated real soon now. There are incompatibilities with the
>Posixfied header files. In the interim the following may be of interest.
>
>  (..deleted information about problems...)

After making the suggested changes, and doing a make of cppmake, I got a message
to the general effect (don't remember the exact language) of:

	_CppMake defined twice

Looking at the source of cppmake.c, there are a lot of names which begin
with "CppMake...".  At least one of them (CppMakefileName) is more than
14 characters long, so perhaps the 14-character variable name limit of Minix
is posing a problem.

At any rate, I grepped cppmake and found that the symbol CM does not appear,
so used sed to change all of the "CppMake"s to "CM"s, and it seems to compile
and load ok.  (Whether or not it is actually working or not, I dunno, as I have
not been able to get it to work yet.  But it may be that I'm doing something
wrong.  With standard Minix 1.5.10 cpp it gives an error message.  With cpp 
from oz, it does not give an error message, but also produces no results).



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