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From: rodeen@buddha.ncc.umn.edu (Rick Odeen)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Problems with compiling rn
Message-ID: <932@buddha.ncc.umn.edu>
Date: 6 Mar 90 21:46:03 GMT
References: <5108@emory.mathcs.emory.edu>
Reply-To: rodeen@buddha.ncc.umn.edu (Rick Odeen)
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Organization: University of Minnesota, Nutrition Coordinating Center
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In article <5108@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> dt@emory.UUCP (Dave Taylor {guest}) writes:
 >I recently ftp'ed a copy of the latest and greatest copy of r.44.tar.Z
 >After getting onto my system and tweeking the config.h file slightly
 >I have continued to try and get it compile fully.
 >
...

 >Here are the errors from the compiler...
 >
 >	cc -c -O term.c
 >term.c
 >term.c(600) : warning 3: not enough actual parameters for macro 'howmany'
 >term.c(600) : error 59: syntax error : ')'
 >term.c(602) : warning 1: macro 'howmany' requires parameters
 >term.c(602) : error 59: syntax error : ')'
 >term.c(602) : error 59: syntax error : ')'
 >term.c(602) : error 59: syntax error : '{'
 >term.c(603) : warning 1: macro 'howmany' requires parameters
 >...
 >... (eventual croak)
 >

The problem is that the name howmany is used in sys/types.h as follows:

#define howmany(x, y)	(((x)+((y)-1))/(y))

I think I just renamed howmany in rn to something else.



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