ghelmer@dsuvax.uucp (Guy Helmer) (03/25/91)
After nearly two months of hacking and debugging, C-news is successfully processing articles under 386-MINIX. A rundown of additions to MINIX to make it work: 1) Earl Chew's stdio package, version 2.1 2) GNU C Compiler and tools, version 1.37.1 3) GNU AWK, version 2.11 4) egrep, public domain from comp.sources.unix archives MINIX's shell couldn't run the configure script, so I built the configuration files on my VAX. A rundown of patches and other work to MINIX and friends: 5) Earl's stdio tweaked a bug in fs with repect to files opened with the O_APPEND flag 6) fread() in Earl's stdio is broken - didn't handle reading from the stdio file buffer correctly 7) Rebuilt library for GNU C - binaries were turning out 25 to 33 percent larger than they should have 8) Added setuid(geteuid()) and setgid(getegid()) functionality to getset.c in mm -- this wasn't really necessary, since C-news can be configured to work around it I intend to post patches for (5) and (6) above, as well as source for egrep. I will also try to put together some sort of installation package for C-news to send to any archive sites that want to carry this. -- Guy Helmer | helmer@sdnet.bitnet Dakota State University | dsuvax!ghelmer@wunoc.wustl.edu (605) 256-5264, (605) 256-2788 | uunet!dsuvax!ghelmer Ahh, if weddings were as easy to design as software...