[TUHS] cryptic cc error on v7

[TUHS] cryptic cc error on v7

[Will Senn]

I found head on 3BSD and thought it might be as simple to compile as 
cr3, unfortunately, it isn't. I did:

$ cc head.c
head.o?

$ cc -c head.c
head.o?

$ pcc head.c
head.c
head.o?

I thought the assembler, as, was cryptic, at least there you get a one 
character error response. What is cc trying to say? Obviously head.o 
won't exist unless cc succeeds...

Thanks,

Will

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[TUHS] cryptic cc error on v7

[Will Senn]

On 11/8/17 10:44 PM, Will Senn wrote:
> I found head on 3BSD and thought it might be as simple to compile as 
> cr3, unfortunately, it isn't. I did:
>
> $ cc head.c
> head.o?
>
> $ cc -c head.c
> head.o?
>
> $ pcc head.c
> head.c
> head.o?
>
> I thought the assembler, as, was cryptic, at least there you get a one 
> character error response. What is cc trying to say? Obviously head.o 
> won't exist unless cc succeeds...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Will
>
Cryptic indeed. Actually, it makes some sense. I was logged in as dmr 
and trying to compile the code in a directory where I didn't have 
permissions (apparently I ran tar xv0 as root). So, it seems like the 
compiler succeeded in compiling the code, but wasn't able to create the 
output. I switched to root and was able to get head working.

Thanks,

Will

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