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From: gs26@prism.gatech.EDU (Glenn R. Stone)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Anyone get ELM to compile on RS/6000 ??
Summary: ANSI C strikes again....
Message-ID: <16712@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 8 Nov 90 21:16:21 GMT
References: <883@ki.UUCP>
Reply-To: glenns@eas.gatech.edu
Organization: Dead Poets Society
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In <883@ki.UUCP> dwatts@ki.UUCP (Dan Watts) writes:

>Has anyone been successful in getting ELM to compile on the IBM RS/6000?

Yup, with some work...

>The problem appears to be that CC doesn't like the redeclaration of
>'char *strok()' and all the rest.  If you put in lines of code like:

> char * someroutine();
> char * someroutine();

This is part of ANSI.... and...

>it will error on the second declaration just like it does above.
>Is there some compiler switch that will make the compiler accept this?

Yes, there is.  Or several, actually.  Look in /usr/lpp/bos/bsdport
for the appropriate switches (ignoring -D_BSD and -lbsd).  (You don't
want to compile this bsd-ish; there are more headaches concerning 
the Berkeley line discipline as opposed to POSIX you don't want to
deal with....)  

What I ended up doing is simply commenting out the redundant string
declarations instead..... now that I've done it once, it's no big
deal, and patch is smart enough to apply things one or two lines 
down without complaining much.  

<sigh> the '6000 is a great machine.... once you get used to 
porting to it.  

Hmm.  P'raps I should dress up the code and supply diffs?
am I going to get innundated with demand for that? :)

-- Glenn R. Stone
gs26@prism.gatech.edu, glenns@eas.gatech.edu (the '6000)