AKCL INSTALLATION PROBLEMS...

[tonyc@starbase.MITRE.ORG (Anthony Castellano)]

| Date: Tue, 12 Mar 91 11:30 -0300
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| Dear KCL users,
|
|	   I'm trying to install AKCL (version 1.65 Sep 1988)+KCL
| (version June 1988) in a Sparc server 390 (with the TACC
| acelerator) running the UNIX 4.1.1 system.
|
|	   The C compilations run OK, but when the loader (ld) is
| called to build "raw_kcl" the following error occurs:
|
|	   defmacro.o: Bad secondary magic number
|
|	   It should be noted that "defmacro.o" is the first file in
| the loader options that is originally writen in Lisp and
| compiled into C, with the C compiled version available in the
| distribution tape.
|
|	   During the installation, this type of files are generated
| through the following commands:
|
|	   cc -c defmacro.c
|	   cat defmacro.data >> defmacro.o
|
|	   I suspect that the problem is related to this "cat" command
| which somehow modifies the magic number of the ".o" file.
|
|	   HELP:
|
|	   Is someone out there that has already had that problem ?
|
|	   Is there a new version of AKCL adapted to the 4.1.1 system ?
|
|	   Can this be related with the server 390 architecture ?
|
|	   Any help will be highly appreciated !
|
|	   Thanks in advance,
|
|		   Guilherme Bittencourt (INPELAC@BRFAPESP.BITNET)

You have to use version 5.05 in order to be compatible with the sparc.
you can get in by ftp to utexas.

tony castellano