rn won't compile on my SCO UNIX

George Bron Faison Bron at cup.portal.com
Sun Mar 3 17:33:45 AEST 1991


In followup to article <1821 at utodaycom> by sean at utoday.UUCP,
Conner P. Cahill (uunet!virtech!cpcahill) writes: 
>>I just got a copy of SCO UNIX 3.2 and the accompanying development
>>system and installed it on my 386 PC. I was planning to compile our
>>sources for CNEWS and rn on this machine and give them a go, but have
>>run into what may be a less-than-minor problem. rn won't compile. I
>>keep getting errors about stuff being left at the end of the undef,
>>else and endif lines, as well as a bunch of syntax errors I'm still
>>trying to wade through.
>
>Not that I have done this (since I don't have SCO UNIX), but I would
>suggest that you start with rcc (the real C compiler (pcc derivative))
>instead of cc (which is the microsoft C compiler.
>
Amen!  I've run into all sorts of screwy problems using the "cc"
compiler under Xenix releases.  Same goes for Xenix termio.  I would
recommend following the above advice or consider getting the gcc stuff
from FSF.

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