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- From: Bron@cup.portal.com (George Bron Faison)
- Newsgroups: alt.sources
- Subject: Re: rn won't compile on my SCO UNIX
- Message-ID: <39757@cup.portal.com>
- Date: 3 Mar 91 07:33:45 GMT
-
- In followup to article <1821@utodaycom> by sean@utoday.UUCP,
- Conner P. Cahill (uunet!virtech!cpcahill) writes:
- >>I just got a copy of SCO UNIX 3.2 and the accompanying development
- >>system and installed it on my 386 PC. I was planning to compile our
- >>sources for CNEWS and rn on this machine and give them a go, but have
- >>run into what may be a less-than-minor problem. rn won't compile. I
- >>keep getting errors about stuff being left at the end of the undef,
- >>else and endif lines, as well as a bunch of syntax errors I'm still
- >>trying to wade through.
- >
- >Not that I have done this (since I don't have SCO UNIX), but I would
- >suggest that you start with rcc (the real C compiler (pcc derivative))
- >instead of cc (which is the microsoft C compiler.
- >
- Amen! I've run into all sorts of screwy problems using the "cc"
- compiler under Xenix releases. Same goes for Xenix termio. I would
- recommend following the above advice or consider getting the gcc stuff
- from FSF.
-
- Bron Faison Modern Office Systems Technology, Inc.
- (bron@cup.portal.com) 6006-B Mechanicsville Pike
- (voice:804-730-1467) Mechanicsville, VA 23111
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