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From: timo@cwi.nl (Timo Krijnen)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Comments on ABC problems by the authors
Message-ID: <2747@charon.cwi.nl>
Date: 3 Jan 91 11:02:58 GMT
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Organization: The ABC Team, CWI, Amsterdam
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Originator: timo@goudvink.cwi.nl


We are a little late in responding to the problems that arose around
the posting of the ABC distribution for Unix machines to
comp.sources.unix because our institute was closed between Christmas
and NewYear. Apologies.

1) Missing files.
Aparently somewhere 11 files got lost, either between us and the
moderator or further up the path. That accounts for all those
complaints by the linker.

2) Setup and Unixes.
Setup tries to find out what type of Unix you are running. After it
was written (years ago:-) most unixes got "enhanced". Some
SystemV-look-alikes added BSD-isms and vice versa. We have a new
version which no longer uses SIGCLD and SIGCHLD, but instead tries to
discriminate between BSD-types with SIGXCPU and VTALRM and checks for
System V with SIGPWR. But it uses this only as a suggestion, leaving
the ultimate choice to the installer herself.

3) getwd() versus getcwd().
Oops, we "fixed" that for System V without testing it, because we did
not have any System V machines at the time.

4) compound() and remove()
These are private routines, whose names were invented before they
turned up in standard header files or libraries (like compound() on
Sparcs and remove() in System V).
The fixes are quite easy: add e.g. "#define compound b_compound"
to an apropriate header file (ihdrs/i2par.h in this case).

We are busy producing a posting to fix al these problems.

I have send a mail to Rich Salz asking him to accept our fixes as a
"definite" patch; otherwise we will post to comp.sources.bugs in a
week or so.

Groetjes, timo krijnen (timo@cwi.nl)

PS. There indeed does exist a mailing list for ABC: abc-list@cwi.nl;
send mail to abc-list-request@cwi.nl to join it.
-- 
 Timo Krijnen
 CWI (Center for Math. & Comp. Science), Amsterdam
 timo@cwi.nl