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Re: LaTex/tex/MF 3.14 on dg aviion

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From: Tom Horsley
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 16:36
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I did this for hours and hours when I was porting TeX to my AViiON. It is
a subtle and creepy error. What is actually happening is this:

   On your aviion in the /usr/include directory there is a file named
   memory.h which is included by /usr/include/string.h

   In your TeX source directory there is a file named memory.h which
   TeX is using for soemthing or other.

   The TeX Makefiles run the compiler with lots of -I flags telling the
   preprocessor where to find things.

   The preprocessor winds up either getting /usr/include/memory.h where
   it expects the local memory.h or vice-versa (I forget which).

Personally, I was disgusted by DG referencing a non-standard header in
string.h, so I changed the /usr/include/string.h on my system to inline
expand the stuff it actually needed from memory.h.

If you aren't the sysadm of this DG system, you might have to do something
like make a local copy of the /usr/include/string.h file in the same directory
which already has the local copy of memory.h and fix your copy of string.h
to expand the stuff from /usr/include/memory.h

Good luck.
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Subject: Re: LaTex/tex/MF 3.14 on dg aviion
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