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From: paulc@polari.UUCP (Paul Cornett)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: something's broke -> 1.5 libc.a & ls.c
Summary: bug in compiler
Message-ID: <3960@polari.UUCP>
Date: 4 May 91 21:50:46 GMT
References: <9943@plains.NoDak.edu>
Organization: Seattle Online Public Unix (206) 328-4944
Lines: 43

In article <9943@plains.NoDak.edu>, enders@plains.NoDak.edu (Todd Enders - WD0BCI ) writes:
> 
>      Well, I finally completed my upgrade of Minix from v1.2 to v1.5.10!
> Everything compiles and seems to work OK, except for ls (the ls I had for
> v1.3 didn't compile either, but that's another story).  Everything goes fine
> until link time where it dies, saying:
> 
> perror.s 300: _21 multiple declared
> unresolved references:

I ran into the same problem.  There is nothing wrong with perror, it is a
bug in the Minix C compiler.  I got ls to compile by making the following
changes to ls.c:

*** ls.c~	Tue Feb  5 06:18:23 1991
--- ls.c	Thu Feb  7 14:08:49 1991
***************
*** 485,490 ****
--- 485,492 ----
  {
    unsigned short mode;
    char c, fchar( 	/* unsigned short mode */ );
+   static char *rwx[] = {"---", "--x", "-w-", "-wx",
+ 		        "r--", "r-x", "rw-", "rwx"};
  
    if (flags_i) printf("%5d ", entry->f_stat.st_ino);
  
***************
*** 493,500 ****
    mode = entry->f_stat.st_mode;
  
    if (flags_l) {
- 	static char *rwx[] = {"---", "--x", "-w-", "-wx",
- 			      "r--", "r-x", "rw-", "rwx"};
  	char bits[11];
  
  	switch (mode & S_IFMT) {
--- 495,500 ----


Paul Cornett
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