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Re: Install SCO-Unix Gnu C 2.5.7: Illegal escape seq in cexp.y

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From: Henry van Cleef
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 1994 05:01
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In article <2nc1sh$e1a@sugar.NeoSoft.COM> mshallop@sugar.NeoSoft.COM (Micheal Shallop) writes:
>
>Hi Ben - I just got this packages built and installed *yesterday* on my
>site - SCO 3.2.4.2 - same as yours... I got through stage 2, tho, before
>everything barfed the first time.  Anyway, what I did, was used the following
>parms to configure: 
>
(parms deleted)
>
>Everything went as recorded in the INSTALL docs - until I got to the compare
>between stage 2 and stage 3 - char 22 on line 1 of all my .o files were
>different.  Hmm... I went ahead and installed anyway and all seems, so far
>to be working.  Will let you know after I compile groff today...
>
Yup---COFF objects all have a date stamp in the file header.  Two
otherwise-identical objects won't compare.  

The Cygnus assembler (gas 2.*) doesn't put out this date stamp, puts out
0's instead.  Primary reason for installing GNU software is so you can
compile GNU software.
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From: vancleef@netcom.com (Henry van Cleef)
Subject: Re: Install SCO-Unix Gnu C 2.5.7: Illegal escape seq in cexp.y
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