The following reply was made to PR os-sunos/911; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Marc Slemko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: os-sunos/911: Included Spencer regex package wont compile (undefined macros) (fwd) Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 21:27:27 -0600 (MDT) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 19:56:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Pat Myrto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Marc Slemko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: os-sunos/911: Included Spencer regex package wont compile (undefined macros) <sigh> I went thru what happened allready. I really see no need repeat what was said. The package does not like to let one build the test/debug version of the regex package, as modified in the tarball. Originally the Spencer regex pkg could be built with either a K&R cc or an ANSI cc with the appropriate flags in the makefile. It was modified to not do that, after I did some diffs. I finally got the thing to build as I allready indicated, after seeing what changes were made by comparing the original with the regex included, and dealing with those changes. You people included a package that is meant to be a standalone library in its own right, left the standalone build makefile and instructions in there, but modified the package, said nothing about doing that, which caused it to not compile as originally intended. That resulted in the problems and a lot of confusion. There is a problem in the makefile in that package that is apparantly sensitive to this,nd that causes the generated headers to not build correctly, and the compile to fail. I also mentioned in a PS that the tarball does give a checksum error that was also the source of some concern here when extracted as the msg produced is what one sees on a truncated tar file. This applies to the .Z form and the .gz form (ftping several times from several sites to determine if it was a bad ftp copy or was in fact in the original archive). I don't know if anything important is truncated off the archive or not as of yet, it appears to lop off at the ./log subdir, and whatever followed that. What is there does build after what I experienced and described, but I dont know if its a good build yet, there are some site-specific things that need to be done here before its actually run. Now you can check into what I described, add the appropriate docs, or just cop an attitude, I really don't care. I have consumed more of my time than this issue is worth (to me, at least). I tried to share some info with you about a problem I had with the package, that others may also run into, as well, if conditions are right, but I guess you are not interested in info about glitches unless you can replicate them under ANY condition, with no investigative effort involved. Later, Pat M > > Synopsis: Included Spencer regex package wont compile (undefined macros) > > State-Changed-From-To: open-analyzed > State-Changed-By: marc > State-Changed-When: Thu Jul 24 10:08:23 PDT 1997 > State-Changed-Why: > It would certainly help if you gave us the errors you > were having instead of just going on complaining about > how it doesn't work without saying exactly what doesn't work. > > It compiles perfectly on SunOS 4.x for me, so I'm not sure > how I'm magically supposed to know your problem without > you giving any details. > > Thanks. > > -- #include <std.disclaimer> Pat Myrto (pat at rwing dot COM) Seattle WA "A well read electorate being necessary to the advancement of a free society, the right of the people to keep and read books shall not be infringed." Do the people (individual) or electorate (group) have the specified right?
