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I recently obtained the ARP 1.2 programming materials.

I un-arced the MANXLIB stuff, and stuck the libraries in the appropriate
directories on my HD. But, when I went to "ln" a sample program, using
arp.lib, ln complained that arp.lib was not a valid library. It turns
out that NONE of the supplied libraries are "liked" by ln.

So, I decided to re-make the libraries....

The first thing make does is assemble arpcrt0.asm (I think). This file
does an include on <exec/exec_lib.i>. The assembler throws up all over
the place on this file.

The file exec/exec_lib.I has a bunch of lines that look like this:

        FUNCDEF Supervisor
        FUNCDEF ExitIntr
        FUNCDEF Schedule
            ....

The assembler can't find the macro FUNCDEF. Neither can I!

Does anyone know where this macro lives and what it does (build
_LVO??? entries perhaps?)? What is the purpose of including
exec_lib.i in the first place? If I take out the include, everything
works fine, but I am sure it's in there for a reason!

Does anyone know why none of the Manx librarys are any good?

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