compiling UW v3.4 on 4.2BSD

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1 total messages Started by John Bruner Tue, 28 Oct 1986 16:04

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Author: John Bruner
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1986 16:04

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I've received mail from several people who are having trouble
compiling UW (now available in "mod.mac.sources") on a 4.2BSD
machine.  The problem occurs when compiling the server source
file "uw_pcl.c" at or around line 63.

Some versions of the Portable C compiler, apparently including
(at least some versions of) the 4.2BSD compiler for the VAX, do
not fully support "void" datatypes.  The source code is correct,
but the compiler incorrectly issues an error.

I know that this problem is fixed in 4.3BSD and on Sun UNIX
(since it didn't fail for me during development).

If your compiler is broken in this fashion, the easiest way around
the problem is to add "-Dvoid=int" to CFLAGS in the "Makefile".
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  John Bruner (S-1 Project, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
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