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Subject: Re: Cornell V1.2 Bug Report (1/5)
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Date: Tue, 19-May-87 04:09:46 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 19 04:09:46 1987
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References: <909@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Reply-To: cmc@pyr-a.UUCP (Chris Crampton)
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In article <909@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> gdykes@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu.UUCP (Gene Dykes) writes:
>
>I have uncovered lots of bugs in C++, V1.2, and these are documented here
>...
>2) Fix CC, line 79, which won't work. (It won't work on GOULD Unix
>either)  If you don't patch it, compiling "x.c" will give you "x.c.o"
>A quick and dirty fix is to replace "[cC]" with "c".  I haven't yet tried
>to fix it so that x.C will be recognized.  It's probably trivial.
>

This problem is that the System V basename(1) (or at least the one we
have in the att universe on our Pyramid) allows invocations of the form:

	basename filename .[cC]
	
which has the expected (to sh(1) users) effect. The fix I came up with for
the older basename(1) was to use:

	case $A in
	*.c)	B=`basename $A .c`
		;;
	*.C)	B=`basename $A .C`
		;;
	esac

The only other change I had to make, apart from coping with odd flavours of
UNIX and sh(1), was to add a -DBSD to the CC script when appropriate so that
stdio.h comes out of cpp correctly. This may be mentioned in the
documentation  somewhere and I have just missed it.
	
>...
>Fortunately, C++ is well worth any troubles encountered in bringing it up,

I agree. Also, over the last few years I have ported five or so versions of
C++ to several different and tricky machines and I really appreciate the
effort that Bjarne and his assistants have put into making this version so
much more portable.

Chris.
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