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From: cechew@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU (Earl Chew)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Minix-386 Tutorial
Message-ID: <3318@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU>
Date: 8 Nov 90 00:32:21 GMT
References: <1362@sun13.scri.fsu.edu>
Organization: Monash Uni. Computer Science, Australia
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In <1362@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> nall@sun8.scri.fsu.edu (John Nall) writes:

>I recommend you stick with these.  In particular, I do not at this
>time recommend using cppmake, as it appears to have problems at the
>1.5.10 level.  These are presently being worked on by several people,
>and may be solved by the time you use this. (Bruce specifies it in his
>documentation, but that was written prior to 1.5.10, I guess.)

I think that my lack of enthusiasm for doing the extra bit of work so that the
patches for cppmake could be posted has given the program a rather bad
reputation :-( What I hadn't counted on was the number of people who would use
it because of Bruce's 386 patches.

Bruce and I have been using it for a long time and it migrated to 1.5.10 with a
few quick edits which haven't been made public.

I will post the current version of cppmake in a day or two. It is undergoing
beta test to make sure that a misfeature is killed.

Urk ... I'm sure you all will be pleased to know that cppmake relies makes
use of fopen(name, "w+"). I think that this feature is supported in a hacked
version of Minix stdio, but not in the official 1.5.10 release. It is supported
in estdio.

Earl

PS As far as I know, it's only being worked on by one person!
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Earl Chew, Dept of Computer Science, Monash University, Australia 3168
EMAIL: cechew@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au PHONE: 03 5655447 FAX: 03 5655146
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