[news.admin] rn won't compile on my SCO UNIX

sean@utodaycom (Sean Fulton) (10/05/90)

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.

The problem, from what I get out of the manual, is that the compiler
is version 4 or 5, with more stringent source rules and the compiler I
used to compile this stuff before (on a Xenix system) was version 3
which accepted this strangeness.

I figure someone out there must have been through this before. Any
help? 

The problems have cropped up here and there with a bunch of packages,
but rn is the only one that has bombed (we're at patch level 47 from
UUNET archives). I haven't tried CNEWS yet (I mean, if I can't get rn
to work ...)

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