Re: LYNX-DEV Building 2.6 on VAX

[Foteos Macrides]

Subir Grewal <address@hidden> wrote:
>I don't know whether anyone else has tried this, but there are some ifdefs
>(I guess this is what spaghetti ifdefs are) that ask VAXC to include
>stdio.h and ctype.h (this is in
>[.lynx2-6.www.library.implementation]htutils.h ). I tried 2.5 as well,
>that dies trying to include stdio.h (there's no message about ctype.h).  I
>had a look at htutils.h and indeed there were ifdefs for VAXC asking it to
>include files that didn't exist (I tried to find stdio.h or ctype.h,
>neither were around). 

        No compiler in existence lacks stdio.h or ctype.h!  On old VAXen
the C compier headers are compiled into a .TLB "text library", and my
not have been broken out into individual headers (don't need to be for
the compiler to use them).

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