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From: tony@ajfcal.UUCP (Tony Field)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: TeX compile bug on Xenix?
Keywords: Broken compiler?
Message-ID: <28@ajfcal.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jan 89 16:46:39 GMT
Organization: Crafield Digital, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Lines: 49

I am attempting to build TeX 2.9 in C from the University of Washington
distribution files. My system is Xenix 2.2.3/386 with a 2.2.1/386
development system (i.e. reasonably recent).

For some reason *tangle* does not seem to execute correctly when:
 
                tangle tex.web ctex.ch

is executed.  I therefore cannot build the tex.pool file.

It seems that tangle cannot find the matching @x-@y-@z triplets in
ctex.ch:  they are validly constructed in the file.

		(cd web2cdir; make)
		(cd TeXware; make tangle)
		(cd texdir; make)
		../TeXware/tangle tex.web ctex.ch
	This is TANGLE, C Version 2.8
	*1*17*25*38*54*72*99*110*115*133*162
	! Where is the matching @z?. (change file l.691044907)
	@y
<<<< note: there is a proper @z at line 203 that matches @y at line 162 >>>>
   
	! @d is ignored in Pascal text. (change file l.691044912)
	@d
	   free==free_arr 
	! Missing ). (l.845)
	@ 
	  If \TeX\ is extended improperly, the |mem| array might get 
	  screwed up. 
	! Sorry, text capacity exceeded. (l.845)
	@ 
	  If \TeX\ is extended improperly, the |mem| array might get 
	  screwed up.

I tried a few *obvious* modifications to tangle.c - none of which worked.

I believe that this is a result of a *broken compiler* since I have also
noticed that the compiler became upset when compiling tex5.c. This was
a compiler bug and was easy to work around.

Has anyone had the same problem and can provide a fix????
Will a more recent edition of TeX work correctly???

         thankyou......             tony.....
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|  Tony Field                       ..alberta!calgary!xenlink!ajfcal!tony
|  Calgary, Alberta, Canada