yacc / perl problem ... cross generate your yacc output!

[Stuart Lynne]

In article <323 at nikhefk.UUCP> henkp at nikhefk.UUCP (Henk Peek) writes:
>
>Cross generate the yacc output on a big unix machine!!
>Take your yacc source to the big (32 bit!) unix machine and yacc it and
>put the output and the 2 include-files to the c compiler on your
>small unix machine. I have used it for a 16 bit machine without yacc.
>I haven't tested it with perl.
>

I've got quite a bit of mail since I posted about this problem. This was the
response from Microport.

 >To: mit-eddie!van-bc!sl
 >Subject: Re: System V yacc / perl problem
 >Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs,comp.unix.questions
 >In-Reply-To: <1675 at van-bc.UUCP>
 >Organization: Microport Systems, Scotts Valley, CA
 >Date: 22 Feb 88 16:32:45 PST (Mon)
 >From: uunet!EDDIE.MIT.EDU!garp!ames!uport!amdcad!jmsully
 >Message-Id: <8802221632.AA15349 at uport.UUCP>
 >
 >In regards to the article which you posted about problems with 
 >Microport's System V/386: the yacc which was originally supplied
 >with Microport (and probably Bell Tech and Interactive) was compiled
 >without the -DHUGE option which is normally only set for 3b's and
 >VAXES.  If you have a Microport support or update contract you can
 >download a yacc which was compiled with -DHUGE from our BBS system.
 >The numbers are:
 >
 >408-438-1680
 >408-438-6687
 >408-438-6567
 >
 >-- 
 >John M. Sully         UUCP: ...!{sun | ucbvax | ihnp4}!amdcad!uport!techs
 >Microport Systems     ARPA: uport!techs at ucscc.UCSC.EDU
 >Technical Support         

To recap I mentioned in my original posting that perl.y would blow yacc out 
of the water on my *tiny little 386 box* at work, but worked fine on my 
*big huge 68010 box* at home :-). 

Apparently Microport (and Bell Tech, possibly Interactive - I havn't
checked) seem to think they are running on a small box. I have to admit that
the Intel Mother board is one of the slower 386 systems around (16MHz, 1
wait state, etc). And ok, it only has 4.5 MB of RAM, 150MB of hard disk - but 
it still runs circles around your average 780, at least for small numbers of
users. I wish these guys would get it right first time around.

Now all I have to do to get the correct version from the Microport BBS is to
subscribe to their silly support contract. Give me a break. Next job I'm
going to specify Xenix/386, it can't be any worse than this.


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