On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 10:29:26AM +0100, Ian Collier wrote: > On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 09:03:03PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 07:50:47PM -0500, Miles O'Neal wrote: > > > Henry Nelson said... > > > | "/usr/ucb/cc" is totally useless in terms of compiling a > > > |program like Lynx. > > > Just curious - why? > > from memory - it's an old compiler, so it still applies - it recognizes > > some ANSI features (such as const) but they don't correspond to the standard. > > Actually I think /usr/ucb/cc is just a wrapper for the Sun C compiler
yes - that appears to be what Albert's machines have. I don't recall if it's always been that way (I first tried that one with 2.4, iirc). > which turns on some flags and sets libdirs to link with the ucb > compatibility libraries. In general you don't want this... > > One of the flags it turns on is -Xs, which means "Compile assuming > (pre-ANSI) K & R C style code" > > And of course since it's just a wrapper it doesn't work anyway unless > you have the real C compiler installed. ;-) -- Thomas E. Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
