sridhar@ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu (Srinivasan Sridhar) (06/29/89)
Hi netters, I'm new to this newsgroup and being a c++ user, I am pretty impressed with the kind of work people are doing in c++. Seems like the reluctance to c++ is wearing off! After porting c++ version 1.2.1 from AT&T to our VAX running on BSD 4.2 with very little or no problems and after porting the translator to our Vax Workstation 2000 running on ULTRIX BSD 4.2, I seem to have problems porting it to our AT&T 3B15's and our AT&T 3B2's!! The following lists the problems I have encountered in porting the translator: (remember, I am porting from scratch, we do not have standard distribution media on diskettes that AT&T sells for the 3B family). 1. Executed "make scratch" and using scratch cfront, libC.a and munch and executed top-level "make". Generated cfront, libC.a and patch but it seems that cfront doesn't seem to work. "make test" does not compile - the error returned is: internal <<cfront 1.21 2/16/87>> error:w1 error 2. Used the working cfront, etc. on our VAX to generate scratch files ("make fillscratch" on the vax) using the "+x $(SZAL) option in the top level makefile where SZAL is the size-alignment of the 3B2's. Moved the scratch files to the 3B2's and executed the makefiles again. Result - same error (internal << ....) 3. Used a working c++ translator on a 3B2 to compile scratch files and make cfront, patch, libC.a. Result - same error. Used the working translator (above) to compile src files and generate cfront ...etc. Result - you guessed it - same error. What beats me is that AT&T has custom written the source code to primarily fit AT&T machines. Though the distribution media is different (they sell compiled translator components), I don't see how this is different from site compiled code. I am sure that some of you have faced similar problems. If there is a quirk in the implementation, some hidden fixes, or there is something basically wrong in what I am doing, I would greatly appreciate your helpful tips. Thanks in advance. --sridhar (grad. student in Kansas State University Dept. of Computer Science)