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From: paul@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (Paul Pomes - UofIllinois CSO)
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Subject: Re: Anyone get ELM to compile on RS/6000 ??
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Date: 8 Nov 90 21:23:25 GMT
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dwatts@ki.UUCP (Dan Watts) writes:

>Has anyone been successful in getting ELM to compile on the IBM RS/6000?
>I ported 2.3pl6 a while back, but I did it by editting all the files
>that wouldn't compile (there were a lot!).  Anyway, I'd like to rev up
>to pl8 but don't look forward to doing all the edits again.  The following
>is what happens when I try the make:

Date:    28 Sep 90 20:42:06 GMT
From:    mdapoz@hybrid.UUCP (Mark Dapoz)
Subject: Re: elm 2.3 PL6 on RS/6000 AIX
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix,comp.mail.elm

In article <8238@milton.u.washington.edu> eliot@engr.washington.edu (Eliot Lim)
 writes:
>I got elm running on mine, but I don't know if my method is the
>easiest (probably not).  I got the exact same err. msg and I ended up
>going into all the source files and zapping the definition of strcmp()
>since it's already defined elsewhere.  For some reason the compiler
>doesn't like strcmp() defined in the source (or was it strncmp(),
>anyway it's one of those).  Once I zapped it, everything went real
>smooth.  I had to change the flock call somewhere from RO to RW
>to get past that too.  

Not exactly the easiest method, here's the flags I used to compile it
without any mods to the code:

CCFLAGS = -D_NO_PROTO -D_NONSTD_TYPES -U__STR__ -D_MBI=void

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