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From: little@odin.ucsd.edu (Glenn Little)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: SUMMARY: can't compile bibtex
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Date: 6 Mar 91 19:04:52 GMT
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Organization: CSE Dept., UC San Diego
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  A couple of days ago, I posted a request for help compiling the web2c-
  generated bibtex.  The code being generated was causing the compiler
  to fail.  Well, I got this suggestion from Stephen F. Scherock 
  (stephen@media-lab.media.mit.edu), who in turn got it from Karl
  Berry:


    Try uncommenting the last two lines in bibtex/convert if you are having
    troubles with this:

    sed -e 's/(buftype)//g' -e 's/(pdstype)//g' < coerce.h > xcoerce.h
    mv -f xcoerce.h coerce.h

    Unfortunately, I seem to recall that this makes it fail on an RS/6000
    under AIX.  But it does make it work on a Sun 4 running 4.x.

  
  The compilation did indeed work (on a tahoe running 4.3bsd) once I did 
  this.  Thanks for the help.

		Glenn Little
		glittle@ucsd.edu
		little%cs@ucsd.edu