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From: mdeale@vega.acs.calpoly.edu (Myron Deale)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: cc preprocessor question
Message-ID: <25f44fd7.4b2a@petunia.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 7 Mar 90 00:03:35 GMT
References: <25f2ebec.2553@petunia.CalPoly.EDU> <341@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
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In article <341@toaster.SFSU.EDU> eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) writes:
>In article <25f2ebec.2553@petunia.CalPoly.EDU>
>	mdeale@vega.acs.calpoly.edu (Myron Deale) writes:
>>   I'd bet this is a known bug, but I'm trying to compile patch v.2
>>and cpp is mis-behaving.
>
>I'll argue that the "known bug" isn't in cpp, but in the Configure
>script in your patch sources.  Newer versions of Configure (such as
>distributed with rn PL 44) work properly on NeXT machines.
>
>In any case, there's a patch executable available by anonymous
>FTP from sutro.sfsu.edu in the pub subdirectory (see the README
>file).  Given that you have a leased line to our campus, you're
>not going to find it anywhere closer...
>
>					-=EPS=-


   Thank you Eric. However, I received email from Christopher Lane and
a few others (thanks! ) suggesting I use the -traditional compiler flag.
I.e. tell Configure: /lib/cpp -traditional.  Worked like a charm.

   If anyone is interested in the process: unshar, run Configure,
comment out the last group of declarations in common.h (try #ifdef 0 /
#endif pair), then make. Apply patches 1-9 using your newly created
patch (you just gotta love it :) and make again. Unshar patch11, apply
patch10, re- Configure and re- make.
   Hey, simple huh?!

   I think it works too.


-Myron
// mdeale@cosmos.acs.calpoly.edu
PS. of course the new Configure in patch11 may be like what EPS
mentioned, although it needs the "/lib/cpp -traditional" too.