From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Thu,  4 Jul 1996 23:37:57 -0400
From: td@plan9.bell-labs.com td@plan9.bell-labs.com
Subject: mothra boddles on plan9.bell-labs.com
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>I just tried.  Two things are misssing.  First, the mkfile in
>/sys/src/fb wants a subdirectory dpic.  Without that, the mk fails,
>even with the -k flag.  Second, a number of things use the stdargs
>interface, which the second edition doesn't support.

Sorry about dpic, that's a troff postprocessor that generates anti-aliased
images that, unfortunately, was never cleaned up for distribution (it used
proprietary fonts, and it failed to track the change from ascii to unicode.)

Was there never an update sent out to deal with stdarg?  We copied the
various /$objtype/include/stdarg.h files into /$objtype/include/u.h
earlier this year when the interface to print et al was fixed to use
stdarg rather than ad-hoccing its way through the argument list.
Obviously, just adding #include <stdarg.h> in the appropriate files
will fix this if you don't want to mangle /$objtype/include/u.h

Thanks for trying the distr. out!

>I've
>emailed Tom asking him to come up with a "Mothra Enhanced" logo so my page
>would be the first one to bear it. :-)

I'm leaving Bell Labs next Friday (July 12) to move to California (working
for Pixar), so my time is a little tight this week, but if I find a couple
of hours and an appropriate monster-movie image to appropriate I'll see what
I can do.