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From: ghoti+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Adam Stoller)
Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew
Subject: Re: HELP - installation problem on DECstation 2100 - ULTRIX 4.1
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Date: 1 Feb 91 14:28:04 GMT
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My guess would be - that Ultrix 4.1 is probably ANSI compliant (finally)
and as such relies on the usage of perror and strerror, and may no
longer include the old [BSD'ish?] sys_errlist[]

The problem is apparently coming from ${ANDREWDIR}/lib/libutil.a -
primarilly from the module uerror.c

If this is the case - try the following:

1) using whatever symbol you have defined in your system.h file - copy
and edit andrew/overhead/util/lib/uerror.c and change:

    if (errorNumber < sys_nerr && errorNumber > 0) return
sys_errlist[errorNumber];

to:
#ifdef YOUR_SYSTEM_FLAG
    if (errorNumber < sys_nerr && errorNumber > 0) return
strerror(errorNumber);
#else
    if (errorNumber < sys_nerr && errorNumber > 0) return
sys_errlist[errorNumber];
#endif

(keep the copy so you can make a diff to send us - if it works, and so
that you can copy it back it place and patch it officially when your
diff gets sent out as a patch)

2) Do a 'make clean' in andrew/atk/basics/common (doload errors
sometimes produce 0-length .do files which mess things up).

3) Rebuild from "andrew" (several things in overhead may need to relink
against libutil.a - but it shouldn't take too long to get through
overhead and back to ATK - to find out if the problem still exists)

4) If the above works send us a copy of the system.h and system.mcr that
you are using for this particalur sys-type (I don't think we have it in
our lists yet) - and the diff that you used in uerror.c so that we can
apply it to our sources.

5) If this doesn't work - post again - maybe someone else will have an
idea........

Good luck,

--fish