Re: lynx-dev Compiling lynx Development Version 2.8.1dev.16 on VMS

[T.E.Dickey]

> The following compilation errors were encountered executing BUILD.COM on 
> OpenVMS V6.2 Alpha and VAX, DEC C V5.2-003, UCX, DEC curses. 
thanks (will integrate fixes -- I'd like to split up the larger files also,
though that'll take more work).
  
> ** PLEASE NOTE: The workarounds suggested below are total hacks to get it 
> to compile. I have no idea what I am doing, and have not carried out any 
> kind of testing at all on the resultant image beyond reading a local HTML 
> file. I am just posting this note in the hope that the developers, when 
> they recover from laughing at my idiocy, will provide the proper fixes. 
>  
> 1) tcp.h tries to #include non-existent "sys/filio.h" 
>      Workaround: Remove the #include line -- everything still compiles. 
>  
> 2) LYMail.c references undefined symbols "header" and "tilde". 
>      Workaround: Remove the CTRACE(...) line referencing header (line 
> 1522). 
>           Change tilde to literal string "~" (line 883). 
>  
> 3) LYReadcfg.c contains numerous references in PARSE_STR(...) macro calls 
> to strings which LYGlobaldefs.h explicitly excludes from definition on VMS. 
>     Workaround: Disable these definitions with #ifndef VMS. 
>  
> 4) LYUtils.c contains an extra close curly bracket (}) somewhere. 
>      Workaround: delete the one at line 3793 (No, I don't have any real 
> reason for choosing that particular one, except that doing so seems to 
> match the indentation scheme!) 
>  
> 5) Some source files are getting big. HTML.c failed to compile on VAX/VMS 
> with a "compiler abort - virtual memory limits exceeded"  on my user 
> account with page file quote 30145. Fortunately, I have the password to the 
> SYSTEM account, page file quota 39743, which was enough. 
>  


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