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to: Roy J. Tellason
from: Bob Jones
date: 2003-08-01 08:11:36
subject: LFNs

BJ> And if I can get the Linux code to compile on my OS/2 system, we 
 BJ> should be able to back-port stuff to OS/2.  Then, if I can get 
 BJ> things working with Open Watacom, other back-ports (Win32) should 
 BJ> be doable.

 RJT> I have trouble enough getting a grip on things for one 
 RJT> platform,  never mind a whole bunch of them,  and 
 RJT> don't know how you guys do it.  :-)

Well, so far I'm not succeeding in doing it....  I still need to pull
together more tools for the OS/2 box, or go through the Linux based
configure script by hand to get code to compile under GCC EMX port on OS/2.
 And then I get to hit the differencea between GNU / Open Watcom, having
__OS2__ defined where the Linux GCC compile didn't use that option, etc. 
Because of the macros used, defines used, etc., to get things to port, one
minor change can cause a ton of errors.....  And it can take time to figure
out what item needs changing.  :(  So, I'm going to have some
"fun" sorting out existing #ifdef's and changing them to depend
on  ( __GNUC__ and ) vs (__UNIX__ and
__OS2__) for some items.....

And i've found that the editor I've been using on OS/2 is replacing
's with , and (the OS/2 version of) GNU make
distinguishes between the two for a few things....  :(

Let's see...  Still need to track down Bison / Yacc for OS/2 to compile
Maximus there....

Any way.....  

Bob Jones, 1:343/41

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