Help with chpasswd-cgi compilation

[James A. Donovan]

Looks like the code has been removed from the site you mentioned, but taking a guess I'd say there are probably some syntax errors in the code.

As for the gcc errors; did you grab and install the binutils package when you installed gcc? Is /opt/binutils/bin in your PATH when you try compiling using gcc?

[Shannon Petry]

I can definately say the problem is NOT syntax errors for ANSI/C. There were a lot of new style comments "//" which the ANSI/C bundle will not accept, so I removed, checked the source for syntax errors.

The exact header and .c files I copied to my Sun box running gcc, and it compiled fine. I guess it's a way that subfunctions are declared that ANSI/C does not like.

As for gcc, I downloaded the package from the Utah porting center. with ansi/c, I do not need binutils, as that includes a lesser version of cpp, yacc, lex, etc... than is shipped with HP-UX. I'll install it, and try again with gcc and see. To me it looks more like it is having difficulty with the assembler?


Thanks for suggestions though.
I put the source bundle on one of my public FTP servers.
ftp.invenioeng.com/pub/chpasswd-cgi.tar.gz

I really got it from "www.squid-cache.org" downloads section, and I'm not sure where their link is. the internal source gave the url mentioned b4. sorry bout that.

Regards,
Shannon

[Shannon Petry]

Never mind for now, as I think my last comment fixes somewhat my problem. It is the assembler that is having problems, because gcc is looking for /opt/binutils/bin/as for the assembler. This may fix the assembeler problem with gcc as it is defaulting to /usr/ccs/bin/as as the assembler.

I still wonder why ansi/c has problems with the sub-functions though......

Shannon

PS. Is there a way to make the HP ANSI/C support new style c comments? "// comment"