Re: tlug: Draft of June 13 TLUG General Meeting Announcement

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Tue, 26 May 1998, Manuel Chakravarty wrote:

> "Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com> wrote,
> 
> > gcc accepts inline, has done for a long time unless you specify -ansi.
> > (Your link will be hosed unless you -O2, but that's another issue.)
> > flex may have a problem with it (*.l are lex files).  flex 2.5.4
> > doesn't complain.
> 
> I have flex 2.5.4 installed.  Furthermore, the `inline'
> directive is in the C part of the lexer specification, flex
> should just copy that verbatim into the generated C file and
> not parse the stuff.  Finally, it is definitely gcc who
> complains -- yes, I can distinguish a `gcc' invocation from
> a `flex' invocation ;-)
> 
> Anyway, you found the problem by mentioning the `-ansi'
> option, which is actually used while compiling the flex
> output (which I checked after reading your message).  Now, I 
> wonder why the developers included -ansi in the options for
> compiling a non-ANSI file...maybe ./configure messes
> something up...
> 
> > I have no idea, because ...
> > 
> > 			    DEBIAN RULES!
> > 
> > :-)
> > 
> > Get alien*.rpm and install the debian-jp version of VFlib.
> 
> Hmm, last time I tried to install the debian package manager
> from source I got an unmotivated compile error.  Hence, I
> left the thing alone.  (In contrast to RPM, which was
> installed in 5 minutes...)
> 
> Anyway, I'll try the alien stuff and make my Linux
> installation completely messy...

Wait! Wait! have you tried the TurboLinux-J VFLib RPM package yet?  Try
that first:

ftp.pht.co.jp:/pub/turbolinuxj/1.4/TurboUpgrade/RPMS

if it's not there, try:

ftp.pht.co.jp:/pub/turbolinuxj/1.0/TurboLinux/RPMS

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
               <sstone@example.com>
Linux Developer/Systems Administrator for Pacific HiTech, Inc. 
http://www.pht.com		http://armadillo.pht.co.jp
http://www.pht.co.jp	        http://www.turbolinux.com


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