[comp.sys.sequent] compiling Bnews under Dynix with new compiler

rick@uunet.UU.NET (Rick Adams) (08/15/89)

If you're thinking of recompiling Bnews under Dynix with the newly
released C compiler (ATS C Compiler) you must disable the
macros in params.h for STRNCMP and STRCMP (do what the #ifdef gould
code does).

The new compiler mishandles those macros in mysterious ways
(e.g the test for Orphaned response  succeeds sometimes and the
search for "backbone" in the mailpaths file fails often)

Sequent's working on it, but it doesnt seen to be reproducable with
anything less than the entirety of inews.

I've gone back to using the old compiler for news.

--rick