Re: TeX for Debain, can you help!!
Jonathan A. Buzzard writes:
>
> I downloaded web2c-6.1 last night, however I have run into a major problem
> compiling it. Here's the bit that make is echoing to the screen when it gives
> up.
>
[ GCC output deleted ]
>
> And the header file it chews on. (it is complaining about the last line).
[ .... ]
> extern void *alloca();
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Just put something like `#ifndef linux' /`#endif' around it. But
web2c uses configure, which should have caught it. What version of
GCC and libc are you using?
--
Sunando Sen
Dept. of Economics Email: sens@acf2.nyu.edu
New York University
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