POSER@su-csli.arpa (Bill Poser) (11/26/85)
I just tried to install a new (1984) version of S on an 11/750 running 4.2BSD. The installation procedure aborted when it ran a test to see if the version of the M4 macro processor was the one it wanted. The test checks whether M4 understands an argument designator of the form $*. None of the machines that I have tried around here have an M4 that knows about $*, nor have I found it in any documentation. All of the manuals say that argument designators are of the form $n, n an integer. Does anyone know what's going on here and how I might follow SYSGEN's suggestion that I get a new version of M4? -------
cperry@mitre.arpa (Chris Perry) (11/26/85)
Mike, I don't have a copy of the message on the next ttf meeting; however, raj mishra (mishra@mitre.arpa) does. i've forwarded your note to him, and i'll call him to make sure he's received it. let me know if you don't get a reply. cheers chris
mikem@uwstat.UUCP (11/26/85)
> > I just tried to install a new (1984) version of S on an 11/750 > running 4.2BSD. ......... > Does anyone know what's going on here and how I might follow SYSGEN's > suggestion that I get a new version of M4? > ------- Try looking in ~s/src/m4 (also try ~s/src/yacc ). Both of these should be remade and used by S. (I forget the details, but I think the m$ requires this yacc .....). Anyway, READ the help; document which comes with the tape. It usually explains these things. -- Mike Meyer -- Phone +1 (608) 262-1157 (Leave messages at 262-2598) ARPA: mikem@stat.wisc.edu (used to be mikem@wisc-stat.arpa ) UUCP: ...!{allegra,ihnp4,seismo,harvard,topaz,caip,ucbvax, pyrchi,heurikon}!uwvax!uwstat!mikem
perlman@wanginst.UUCP (Gary Perlman) (11/27/85)
To compile S, you need the System V version of the m4 macro processor. It is a big improvment on the Version 7 m4 distributed with Berkeley. I think older versions of S sent m4 along for the ride, but no longer. -- Gary Perlman Wang Institute Tyngsboro, MA 01879 (617) 649-9731 UUCP: decvax!wanginst!perlman CSNET: perlman@wanginst
perry@vu-vlsi.UUCP ( Faculty) (12/02/85)
In article <67@brl-tgr.ARPA>, POSER@su-csli.arpa (Bill Poser) writes: > > I just tried to install a new (1984) version of S on an 11/750 > running 4.2BSD. The installation procedure aborted when it ran a test to > see if the version of the M4 macro processor was the one it wanted. We recently installed S on our Pyramid 90x system and had to install the special version of m4 that comes with the S source. My notes on that say: src/m4/makefile changed to install m4 in src/m4 directory; adm/cmd/MAKEm4 changed to reference m4 from /u1/s/src/m4/m4 cmd/makehead M4 symbol set to /u1/s/src/m4/m4 where /u1/s is the S home directory here... you need to do 'make' in the ~s/src/m4 directory after performing these changes. ...Rick Perry