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Subject: glitch in compiling Lout 3.29
From: Colin Klipsch <address@hidden>
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Dr. Kingston --

Thanks for releasing Lout 3.29, and continuing to develop this fine 
piece of software.

I've had trouble compiling the Lout 3.29 executable when debugging is 
turned off.  (Debugging is enabled by default in the Makefile's initial 
configuration, and this version builds successfully.  Perhaps you 
forgot to set back the variables, and test, before releasing?)  When 
debugging is _disabled_ however, the source files compile fine, but the 
build fails at link time like so:

   ld: Undefined symbols:
   _DebugObject
   make: *** [lout] Error 1

So I went hunting for invocations on DebugObject -- a function which 
obviously wasn't compiled in the non-debug version, and judging by its 
name, isn't supposed to be available.  Almost all the invocations are 
conditioned by 'ifdebug' or 'ifdebugcond' tests, and I decided not to 
worry about these.  However, there are two calls that are not so 
conditioned: file z09.c, line 101, and file z20.c, line 657.  After 
commenting out these two particular calls, the Lout executable builds 
just fine.  Even better, it seems to run correctly on my documents -- 
which is the main thing.

Incidentally, my computer platform is MacOS-X 10.2.6 (a BSD Unix), with 
the GCC 3.3 compiler.

Another incidental fact: the Lout 3.29 User Guide is now parsable by 
Ghostscript's 'ps2pdf' converter.  The previous release was not, for 
whatever reason.  If you'd like a PDF version of the User Guide, I can 
send it to you.

Hope to hear back from you, if time permits.

-- Colin K.