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Cc: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>,
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD make on other platforms [was: Re: Building
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Saravanan Shanmugham (sarvi) wrote:
> Hi Giorgos,
>      The build failed for me 'with a syntax error before "__dead2" '.
>      Are there any special include files I am supposed to have?
> I had trouble with the autoconf version I had installed and had to
> upgrade to the latest.
> Then I was able to move past, autoconf, automake, configure.
> 
> Whhen I went to make I got that error. It looks like __dead2 is a
> #define in cdefs.h found in some BSD installs. I am building on RedHat
> Enterprise Linux 4 and the sys/cdefs.h file does not see to define
> __dead2.
__dead2 is a custom gcc modification.  It just means the function
doesn't return IIRC.

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