Darcy Buskermolen wrote:

>On January 27, 2005 02:06 pm, Christopher Browne wrote:
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>Chis, I'm running this test on my 8.1 box, and it works fine.
>the problem perhaps is related to other changes I made in CVS yesterday ?.  
>Try a fresh checkout + ./configure and see if theproblem goes away.  
>I made a change to slonik.c that now expects the "sed" to be passed in as a 
>-Ddefine.  this was done to some install I admin not having sed in the path, 
>and slonik would just do strange things.
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Ah.  I'm doubtless doing something "dodgy" in my installation.

And I'll be musing about the merits of maybe using cpp or m4 to do 
name/id mappings...  Trying to nearly interchangeably use names or 
numbers makes for some thorny problems that "macro rewriting" would make 
go away.  I have been warned that I might get shunned by some people if 
I try m4...