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From: gray@diemen.utas.edu.au (Tony Gray)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: SOZOBON Problem
Keywords: SOZOBON HELP!
Message-ID: <1906@diemen.utas.edu.au>
Date: 4 Jan 91 02:18:21 GMT
Organization: Computing Centre, University of Tasmania, Australia.
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Hi all,

I recently FTP'd the SOZOBON compiler from ATARI.ARCHIVE, along with
the GULAM shell and ELVIS (trying to improve my knowledge of C).

Trouble is, after I run ELVIS, the Sozobon linker (LD) will fail, with
a message saying it can't open the output file.  What is even more
confusing is that if I quit out of Gulam and then restart, everything
worts fine until I use ELVIS again.  It seems as though ELVIS is
doing something it shouldn't, but if this is the case why doesn't
an earlier part of the compile stage fail?

The problems occur when I use both MAKE and CC (as supplied in the
Sozobon kit).

My machine is a Mega 4 (TOS 1.2) and I run Gulam from Neodesk.  I have
tried disabling all of my AUTO folder utils and DA's, and even Neodesk,
running Gulam directly from the inbuilt desktop, but I still get the
problem at link time.

If I use the -v option to CC (to see the progress of commands) I notice
odd graphic characters after one of the file names passed to the linker,
but these seem to be visible both when the linker works and when it
doesn't.

Also, if I use MAKE rather than CC (using just the simple form 'make
xx.ttp') I can tell if it's going to work or not almost immediately -
if MAKE displays the command it passes to CC then the I know the compile
is going to work.  If make doesn't display this, I get lots of disk
accessing (ie., going through the compile stages) and then the link
failure.

Has anyone else seen this problem before?  Can anyone suggest a fix?
Heres hoping...!

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Tony Gray                             AARNET : gray@diemen.cc.utas.edu.au
School of Applied Computing           Phone  : +61 03 260366
University of Tasmania - Launceston
(was Tasmanian State Institute of Technology - Score : South 1, North 0!)
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