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From: mboen@nixpbe.UUCP (Martin Boening)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: st 1.5.0 make and patch
Message-ID: <786@nixpbe.UUCP>
Date: 5 Feb 90 08:19:01 GMT
References: <15468@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>
Organization: Nixdorf Computer AG, Paderborn, Germany
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Hello folks,

sindair@ucs.orst.edu (Geordi Sinclair - UCS) writes:

>while trying to upgrade my st minix to 1.5.0, I ran into the following
>problems:

>1 )  I had to write a version strchr and strrchr to get make to complile,
>	but it does not work right.

In BSD and V7 Unixes and consequently in MINIX too there are no strchr and 
strrchr functions, they're named index and rindex. So just define strchr as 
index and strrchr as rindex in some header file or with the -D flag for cc.
This works for many programs distributed in the comp.sources.* groups. Why
should it not work for MINIX.

>2 )  When i tried to compile patch, i recieved the error that _fdopen and
>	__exit could not be found when linking the modules together.

Those are errors in the standard MINIX ST libc.a. The popen systemcall uses
_exit instead of exit, if I remember correctly. Just fix that and recompile
popen.c. Also, fdopen is missing. There was a version taken from fopen posted
to the net. Anybody still have it?

Greetings from
Martin Boening
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