Re: lynx-dev Lynx installation problem??

[Ian Collier]

On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 09:03:03PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 07:50:47PM -0500, Miles O'Neal wrote:
> > Henry Nelson said...
> > |         "/usr/ucb/cc" is totally useless in terms of compiling a
> > |program like Lynx.
> > Just curious - why?
> from memory - it's an old compiler, so it still applies - it recognizes
> some ANSI features (such as const) but they don't correspond to the standard.

Actually I think /usr/ucb/cc is just a wrapper for the Sun C compiler
which turns on some flags and sets libdirs to link with the ucb
compatibility libraries.  In general you don't want this...

One of the flags it turns on is -Xs, which means "Compile assuming
(pre-ANSI) K & R C style code"

And of course since it's just a wrapper it doesn't work anyway unless
you have the real C compiler installed.

imc

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