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From: rbr4@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Roland Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Missing shortnames/remap.h and other troubles
Summary: GCC lied!
Message-ID: <353@ur-cc.UUCP>
Date: 16 Nov 88 02:02:07 GMT
References: <8811140607.AA05485@EDDIE.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: rbr4@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Roland Roberts)
Organization: University of Rochester
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I previously posted a message about missing the files in shortnames and an
error message from gcc while compiling GNU Emacs 18.51 on VAX/VMS.  After some
poking about I made a surprising discovery.

GCC was correct in claiming there was an unterminated string constant.  But it
occured nearly ten lines earlier! (including intervening comment lines)  Also,
it would seem that under VMS gcc won't compile GNU Emacs.  I've given up
counting error messages.  Plus there are parts of the code that are very VMS C
compiler specific.  If anyone has successfully compiled GNU Emacs on VMS using
GNU C, I'd love to hear from you.

Fortunately, I can get to a VMS C compiler elsewhere on campus.
 


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