Re: LYNX-DEV LOCAL_DOMAIN Syntax Error

[Hiram Lester, Jr.]

On Sun, 8 Dec 1996, Wilhelm Reindl wrote:

> On compiling I get hung up on one in particular (probably just the first 
> :} ) I simply uncommented the following "erroneous" line in userdefs.h and 
> changed the text in the quotes. 

>  define LOCAL_DOMAIN "tc.umn.edu"
>  -------^

Ok, it looks like what you've done is removed the # before the word
define.  The # is NOT a comment chanracter since this is a C file (.h
files are part of C).  # characters in the first column signal the start
of a "pre-processor" directive (a file should be included here, a
pre-processor macro should be defined, etc. before handing this off to the
actual compiler).  In this case, #define tells the pre-processor to define
a macro called LOCAL_DOMAIN and that everywhere it sees an unquoted
"LOCAL_DOMAIN" in the code to change it to "tc.umn.edu" before compiling
it.

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