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Re: problem building scsh-0.51

To: "James A. Crippen" <crippenj@saturn.math.uaa.alaska.edu>
Subject: Re: problem building scsh-0.51
From: karlheg@inetarena.com (Karl M. Hegbloom)
Date: 17 Sep 1998 23:02:23 -0700
Cc: Scsh Mailing List <scsh@martigny.ai.mit.edu>
>>>>> "James" == James A Crippen <crippenj@saturn.math.uaa.alaska.edu> writes:

    James> This is an older message...  On 19 Aug 1998, Karl
    James> M. Hegbloom wrote:

    >> I have fixed these problems in the course of creating a Debian
    >> GNU/Linux package of `scsh'.  You can find my diffs by
    >> searching for it at http://www.debian.org, through the
    >> "distributions" link and the search pages you can click to.
    >> Just search for `scsh', and download the source and diff.  If
    >> you've got `alien' installed, you might try converting the .deb
    >> into an .rpm, but there's no guarantee it will work.

    James> I tried patching the diff in and everything seemed to work
    James> until I got the following:

    James> scsh/sighandlers1.c: In function `set_procmask':
    James> scsh/sighandlers1.c:44: parse error before ';'

    James> And the code is

    James>     make_sigset(&mask, hi, lo);

 I don't know what to tell you...  I can compile it with no trouble.
 Perhaps you should try again with a fresh tarball and patch.  I've
 uploaded a newer version; not a lot is changed beyond the Debian
 packageing stuff, but perhaps you'll have better luck with it.

 (I'm building it now, just to be sure...) ... looks like it worked;
 it's creating scheme heaps now...............  :-)

    James> Everything surrounding looks okay...  I'm going to go
    James> through the diff and patch by hand, remaking everything
    James> along the way to see if I can weasel out any problems.

 Let me know what was wrong.

    James> I just wish scsh wasn't behaving so poorly.  Then I
    James> wouldn't have to work in C...

 Yes, I like Scheme much more than C also.

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