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- From: fredex@fcshome.UUCP (fred smith)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Subject: Re: C News Performance release (was: Re: Additional library directories)
- Message-ID: <9212231538@fcshome.UUCP>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 20:14:27 GMT
- References: <BzMwLz.185@saruman.stgt.sub.org>
- Organization: What?!? Absolutely none!
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- Alexander Shendi (shendi@saruman.stgt.sub.org) wrote:
-
- : 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.
-
- Yeah! Even though I'm (relatively) happy with wnews, now, It would be
- great to see the diffs for cnews! Please put 'em on mwcbbs and/or raven!
-
-
- Fred
-