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- * Sources, as fetched from ftp://ftp.dsm.fordham.edu/pub/ on 29-Mar-96
- * applied the patch to bring it up to version 2.8.4 to the sources.
- * Changed makefile.
- * Added two new symbolic targets, OS2emx and OS2noemx.
- OS2emx generates an executable which relies on the emx.dll runtime
- library to be somewhere in the LIBPATH; OS2noemx generates a
- standalone executable using the IBM linker link386.exe. It is a bit
- bigger. I couldn't play with other C compilers as I don't have any.
- So, both use gcc / emx.
-
- * Added things like symbols for obvious extensions:
- OBJ
- EXE
-
- which either need to be out in by hand in the header of the makefile
- or all the other Symbolic targets for real UNIX should get additional
- options like
-
- 'OBJ = .o'\
- 'EXE = '\
-
- to restore the defaults typical for UNIX. This is up to you, since
- either will change the distribution.
-
- * added a new implicit rule for compilation to allow any object file
- name and not just the UNIX standard *.o. With these changes, the makefile
- should be easily adapted to VMS and the like.
-
-
-
- * This 'exe' magic can by the way be avoided
- for the OS2emx target by adding the following lines to the target (they
- are commented out right now):
-
- # echo $(FTNCHEK) created. Building now $(FTNCHEK).exe:
- # emxbind -bs -w $(FTNCHEK)
- # rm $(FTNCHEK)
- # echo $(FTNCHEK).exe created.
-
- This then takes the a.out style output file of gcc and makes it into
- an *.exe file. However, I don't know how to do the same for link386,
- and it seems cleaner this way, anyway, since it also allows VMS and
- other targets to be added, or to use other compilers than gcc under
- OS/2, like Borland C++/2 or IBM C-Set++ and so on.
-
- On OS/2, the environment variable SHELL may need to be commented out,
- depending on the combination of shells (I run tcsh and sh / ksh ports)
- and make utilities. On my system gcc is otherwise not found ...
-
- To build this, at least mv.exe should be there, and of course,
- gcc / emx should be installed.
-
- The ftnchek.def file has been modified again, the line
- ; STACKSIZE 0x8000
- is commented out and the stack size given on the gcc command line
- with -Zstack 64. Otherwise I get a stack overflow.
- This may be only neccessary for large environments (my config.sys
- is about 18 kB large, and my .tcshrc isn't small either), but anyway.
-
- The execuatables are compiled with gcc 2.7.2 / emx09b + emxfix03
- applied, and require emx.dll (version 09b or later) in the LIBPATH.
- The other execuatable is standalone.
-
- All tested under OS/2 (v. 3.0 or 2.3) Warp only. Runs fine.
-
-
- Stefan A. Deutscher, sad@utk.edu
-
- PS: Maybe updating the man page (to display version 2.8.4) and the
- version information of ftnchek, as it starts (2.8.4 instead of
- 2.8) would be nice.
-