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Re: compile_et under AIX 3.1

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Crosswell)
Thu Jul 2 18:57:43 1992

Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1992 21:56:43 GMT
From: alan@curta.cc.columbia.edu (Alan Crosswell)
To: kerberos@shelby.Stanford.EDU

In article <LWVANELS.92Jul1102717@fionavar.mit.edu>  
lwvanels@athena.mit.edu (Lucien W. Van Elsen) writes:
> alan@curta.cc.columbia.edu (Alan Crosswell) writes:
> >   Anyone have a compile_et that actually compiles under AIX 3.1?
> >   The (two) version(s) in the rs6000.tar.Z both get syntax errors
> >   on compile_et.c.  Thanks.
> 
> What?  Only two?  I count at least six :-) Unfortunately, there are  
quite a
> few packages in our source tree that have their own copies of some of  
the
> basic libraries; in our build process, we don't necessarily compile  
these,
> but instead use the one built as part of the first pass through the
> libraries.  If you use the sources from in "athena/athena.lib/et", they
> should build, using xlc to compile with "-D_BSD -D_BSD_INCLUDES", and
> linking with "-lbsd".
> 
> 	-Lucien
> --
>  
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> Lucien Van Elsen               | lwvanels@athena.mit.edu
> MIT Athena Systems Development |

Turns out the syntax errors were caused by an IBM bug in lex.   
/usr/lib/lex/ncform line 1 has an comment with no closing "*/"!
But, still having a lot of trouble with imake and friends and getting
the right #defines (like _AIX vs AIXV and so on).
/a

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