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I received the following email today.  I'm posting it to .tech since that's
where it belongs [ and is for "future development" :-) ], and to the regular
group because many people who should see it don't get .tech (yet).


> Date:     Mon, 21 Mar 88 16:06:26 PST
> From: hplabs!RCKG01M%CALSTATE.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU  (Stephen Walton)
> Subject:  ARP 1.1 developers' stuff
>
> [My motto:  when in doubt, mail instead of post.]

Much to be said for that line of reasoning, given the current S/N ratio.  Think
about it.


> I just FTP'd the ARP V1.04 developers' goodies from purdue.  When I tried
> to use the Manx version of the libraries, I got "Not an object module"
> errors, presumably because the .o format changed from 3.4 to 3.6 (I use
> the latter).  Ok, no sweat, says I, I'll just rebuild the libraries
> from the included sources.  Fine, except that the assembler files
> INCLUDE exec/exec_lib.i, which is full of FUNCDEF references, which
> is not defined anywhere that I could find.
>
> Will 1.1 be built with 3.6?  Can you help me with this FUNCDEF problem
> if it isn't?  Thanks in advance.
>
> Steve Walton, Cal State Northridge
> USENET is acphssrw@csuna.UUCP, but machine is defunct for a week
> This is RCKG01M@CALSTATE.BITNET

I hope Steve will see this reply, as my email to him will probably bounce.
Never can seem to get thru to a BITNET site ...

Unfortunately, I could find nothing in any of the v1.1 ARP docs, Makefile for
Manx, includes, etc. that indicated what version of Manx was used to create
the libs, etc.  I'm *guessing* it was v3.4x, though.

Anyway, I tried making the arp libs for Manx (v3.6a) so I could compare them
with the ones supplied in the v1.1 ARP distribution, and ran into the same
problem as Steve did.  I.e., the  "exec/exec_lib.i"  file supplied with the
v3.6a Manx compiler is full of nothing but FUNCDEF's.

I have a sneaking suspicion this has something to do with the ill-understood
(at least by me)  .fd  files supplied by CBM, but I'm not sure.  Anyone know
what the next step is?

I'm also sending a copy of this posting to "cheath" hisself, and to Jim at
Manx.

Thanks for any help!

/kim



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