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Re: whining about roken.h
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeffrey Hutzelman)
Wed Jul 7 12:17:02 1999
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From: Jeffrey Hutzelman <jhutz@cmu.edu>
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Subject: Re: whining about roken.h
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On 7 Jul 1999, Johan Danielsson wrote:
> > Last night, I pulled down the arla-0.25 distribution, and
> > (re)discovered that roken.h and libroken.a do not get installed by
> > default, and worse, that the former contains many references to
> > preprocessor symbols defined by configure, which might not be
> > available to a program wishing to use the library.
>
> This is only the case in the roken present in arla. The Heimdal
> version does create a working roken.h, and also installs it and the
It looks like you did something very similar in concept to what I did, but
not quite as ugly. Figures... I see that roken.awk escapes \ and " in
the input file, but does nothing about %. I would suggest either escaping
% as %%, or using fputs instead of fprintf, to avoid nasty surprises down
the line.
> library. There should probably be a separate roken distribution.
Agreed.
> Was it you intention to do fill-region on the patch? :-)
No; that was my mailer, and I didn't even notice until you pointed it out.
I'll try to avoid that problem in the future...
-- Jeff
