From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 28 17:13:48 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA12174 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 28 Dec 1995 17:13:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA12169 for ; Thu, 28 Dec 1995 17:13:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id LAA04499; Fri, 29 Dec 1995 11:51:24 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199512290121.LAA04499@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: libraries To: cosmos@sponsor.octet.com (Daniel Leeds) Date: Fri, 29 Dec 1995 11:51:23 +1030 (CST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199512281829.SAA00359@sponsor.octet.com> from "Daniel Leeds" at Dec 28, 95 06:29:06 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Daniel Leeds stands accused of saying: > is this my error or something else? I am trying to compile Xmosaic > on freebsd 2.1 and i get this error...ive also gotten it on many other > pacakges im working on as well... > HTTCP.c:68: conflicting types for `sys_errlist' > /usr/include/stdio.h:244: previous declaration of `sys_errlist' It's because many other versions of unix don't prototype sys_errlist in their headers, but FreeBSD does, and the prototypes don't match. Find where the prototype is, and #ifdef it out. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[