Subject: Re: gcc breaks at compiling xinstall?
To: Erik Bertelsen <erik@sockdev.uni-c.dk>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: current-users
Date: 12/05/1996 09:34:44
On Thu, 5 Dec 1996 12:41:00 +0100 (MET) 
 Erik Bertelsen <erik@sockdev.uni-c.dk> wrote:

 > The source files in /usr/src/usr.bin/xinstall have not been updated in
 > ages, and the only recent gcc change I remember is only relevant
 > for mips based ports. My suspicion is that some of the recent header file
 > changes may have either made xinstall.c uncompilable on the m68k or that
 > they have made an unintentional change in cc1.

When MAXBSIZE was changed to MAXPHYS in <sys/param.h>, it appears to have
tickled a bug in gcc, but only while compiling install(1).

I intend to look at this today.

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