Re: Building balsa on Tru64 UNIX (without pspell)



On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 07:55:02PM +0100, Jochen Kunz wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 01:18:31AM +0000, Carlos Morgado wrote:
> 
> > > wants gcc on an Alpha?)
> > it's for the times when du cc sucks. really hard. 
> Software that depends on gcc sucks and people that ignore everything 
> besides GNU/Linux even more. 

osf1 cc blew dead bears. it miscompiled, it had parser problems blah blah 
du4 cc was pretty decent but i *do* recall perlcc managing to generate 10k
worth of C that made cc bloat to 100M and die miserably. anyway, it doesn't
mather :)

> 
> > or you have the even-more-expensive-cc ? :)
> Ahh? There is an other cc than the std cc that comes with the base
> system?
> 
there is (was?) a digital CC optimized for fp and some other stuff that i
hear totally worked. 

> 
> > at some point you'll discover rpm isn't use to install stuff. it's used to
> > uninstall stuff ;)
> I avoid to use Linux as I don't like it. If I have to use it I prefere 
> RockLinux, that does not use rpm.
> 
you do realize DU also uses a package manager :)

> [pspell]
> > talk to the pspell people. i want no part of it :)
> I did this and did not get an answer. :-(
> 
:( awww crap ... 

> OK. I am now going to #ifdef the pspell stuff, so stay tuned. 
> I also eleminated most of the warnings but there are a lot left, due
> to the different type check policy of cc. I will have a look at that
> when the pspell stuff is done. 
> 
> BTW: 
> cc: Warning: balsa-message.c, line 1182: In this statement, "0" of type "int", is being converted to "pointer to const char". (cvtdiftypes)
>     g_return_val_if_fail(charset >= 0, NULL);
> ----^
> Please say that this is a bad joke. I am not a very versed C
> programmer, but using an other test as == or != for a pointer 
> is really ugly.

it's corrected in cvs now.
anyway, that warning is a silly ducc quirk ;)

cheers

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