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Date:      Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:46:04 -0500 (EST)
From:      Daniel Eischen <eischen@pcnet1.pcnet.com>
To:        Kevin Day <toasty@shell.dragondata.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: function name collision on "getcontext" with ports/editors/joe
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.10.10202171244350.8876-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com>
In-Reply-To: <200202100723.g1A7NtW54701@shell.dragondata.com>

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On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, Kevin Day wrote:
> 
> I'm the maintainer for ports/editors/joe, and just tried compiling it under
> -CURRENT.
> 
> <signal.h> includes <sys/signal.h> which includes ucontext.h
> 
> > cc -O -pipe  -c umath.c
> > In file included from b.h:6,
> >                  from bw.h:23,
> >                  from umath.c:5:
> > rc.h:41: conflicting types for `getcontext'
> > /usr/include/sys/ucontext.h:54: previous declaration of `getcontext'
> > *** Error code 1
> > 
> > Stop in /usr/ports/editors/joe/work/joe.
> 
> 
> I can rename getcontext in joe, but "getcontext" seems like a pretty common
> function name, I know I've used it in projects before. Not including
> signal.h isn't really an option either.

The ucontext related namespace pollution should be fixed now.  Let
me know otherwise.

-- 
Dan Eischen


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