RE: AR in beta10

[Jeff Hill <johill@lanl.gov>]

Maren,

It appears that an ANSI C keyword (const)  has slipped into the cadef.h
header file. This may not allow traditional K&R C codes such as the 
archiver to compile. I fixed the problem here. You should be able to patch the 
problem there by changing all instances of "const" to "READONLY" in 
base/src/ca/cadef.h (installed into base/include/cadef.h).
It might also help to use different flags with acc in order to make it more
tollerent of current C.

Jeff

On Tuesday, July 01, 1997 4:04 PM, Maren Purves [SMTP:maren@jach.hawaii.edu] wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> when trying to run the 3.13 beta10 version of AR_cmd I found that it
> crashed with a segmentation fault on 'validate'.
> 
> Trying to gmake the old AR (etc.) version (I think it came out of alpha3)
> in the beta10 surroundings results in the following:
> 
> "/local/epics/R3.13.0.beta10/include/cadef.h", line 202: warning: const is a 
> keyword in ANSI C
> "/local/epics/R3.13.0.beta10/include/cadef.h", line 202: syntax error before or 
> at: const
> "/local/epics/R3.13.0.beta10/include/cadef.h", line 202: cannot recover from 
> previous errors
> cc: acomp failed for ../arAccessLib.c
> 
> (Maybe it isn't such a good idea to try to build things from such different
> versions together, but the AR (etc.) out of alpha3 built in alpha5 just fine)
> 
> Questions:
> - Does anybody else use the archiver in beta10 yet?
> - What am I doing wrong?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Maren