POSTMASTER@NDSUVM1.BITNET (Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster) (11/11/89)
Has anyone else been crazy enough to try and compile ANU NEWS (5.9a) with GCC?
It is taking quite a bit longer to convert than anticipated. (I have already
gotten the objects and executables from kuhub; that's not the point).
I have the relevant header files now (UNSDL and homebrew), have rewritten the
#include statements, and have now started running into other problems. If you
have been working on modifying NEWS to compile under GCC, want to be, or know
of another maniac who is, please drop me a note and we can suffer together.
Thank you, -john
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John Lundin, Jr. lundin@urvax.bitnet "Immature programmers imitate,
University of Richmond lundin@urvax.urich.edu mature programmers steal"
I was once. I had version 5.7 compiled with GCC and was beginning
to work on all the accvio's I was getting when 5.8 came out. I have
since abtained VAXC and not put any more effort into GNU.
A couple of things to watch for.
1. There is a call to VAXC$ESTABLISH to set up an error handler. I
always got an accvio when that was used. I had replaced it with
the run time library LIB$ESTABLISH, which I assumed did much the
same thing. At least it gave the appearance of the expected
results.
2. Some of the headers that came out of UNSDL were missing terminating
braces causing all sorts of errors.
Warren
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