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- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Subject: Re: C News Performance release (was: Re: Additional library directories)
- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!darwin.sura.net!spool.mu.edu!agate!linus!alliant!merk!rmkhome!rmk
- From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 13:34:20 GMT
- Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Message-ID: <9212230834.48@rmkhome.UUCP>
- References: <9212142463@fcshome.UUCP> <BzMwLz.185@saruman.stgt.sub.org>
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- In article <BzMwLz.185@saruman.stgt.sub.org> shendi@saruman.stgt.sub.org (Alexander Shendi) writes:
- >fredex@fcshome.UUCP (fred smith) writes:
- >> Rick Kelly (rmk@rmkhome.UUCP) wrote:
- >> : In article <921212259@fcshome.UUCP> fredex@fcshome.UUCP (fred smith) writes:
- >> : >get the "performance release" of cnews going on 4.0, I found the
- >
- >[... stuff about library path problems deleted]
- >
- >> :
- >> : Did you get the Cnews performance release running? Do you have diffs?
- >>
- >> No. After wasting literally WEEKS on it (and I don't mean 2 or 3, either!)
- >> I got everything compiled, which required considerable work by hand, and
- >> tweaking of makefiles and shell scripts. Then I embarked on trying to
- >> get it all to pass the regression tests that are part of the package.
- >> I got all but two portions of it to pass. I misremember right now which
- >
- >[... more stuff deleted]
- >
- >I am currently running the C News performance release (and using it to
- >post this article). It took me some weeks to make it pass all
- >the regression tests. I managed to get along with Coherent 4.0's
- >sed, awk, etc. ..., but had to make some ugly hacks to get them to do
- >their job. However I had to use byacc to compile
- >/usr/src/cnews/libc/getdate.y (Coherent's yacc didn't work, I assume
- >it is broken.). I don't know if you can use bison. I have had
- >a brief look at the one from MWC's GNU-tools port, but the C
- >compiler doesn't seem to like the code bison generates.
- >
- >BTW, I didn't have many problems with /bin/sh. The main culprit
- >was Coherent's make.
- >
- >The package has been running for approx. one month on my system.
- >It runs quite reliabily, though I sometimes get a
- >'egrep: misplaced ^ in pattern' message in the error logs. This has
- >happend only twice and I have not been able to fix it.
- >
- >I have not particularly cared about the ihave/sendme stuff. So that
- >goes untested!.
- >
- >If anyone is intrested I will try to make some diffs and
- >upload them to mwcbbs.
-
- Yes!
-
- --
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- Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.UUCP merk!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP
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