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From: Julian Jenkins <kaveman@magna.com.au>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Spice build / sh compatable sh?
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 17:51:59 +1000
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On 10 Mar 1996, Bob Harbour wrote:

> I am trying to build the spice circuit simulator code and am getting 
> several problems from the freebsd version of sh. Does anybody know of a 
> port of spice for freebsd? Alternately, does anybody know where I could 
> find a version of sh that is backward compatible with older sh syntaxes?
> I am working with spice versions 3e and 3f4 and getting problems with a 
> trap instruction and an unexpected semicolon in the build script.

This worked for me simply by commenting out this line of the build 
script. I also had to set a shell variable "SPICE_NO_DATASEG_CHECK" to 
get it to work.

I think thats all I had to do.

Kaveman
kaveman@magna.com.au