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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!iol!gate.ohs.ie!usenet From: steveo@gate.ohs.ie (Steve O'Hara-Smith) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Sys_errlist conflict with Top3-4 compile Date: 16 Apr 1996 21:48:00 GMT Organization: Steve O'Hara-Smith Lines: 24 Sender: root@gate.ohs.ie (Steve O'Hara-Smith) Message-ID: <4l14ig$2o5@gate.ohs.ie> References: <4l0k4d$mb9@saluki-news.wham.siu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: dialup-141.dublin.iol.ie X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 In article <4l0k4d$mb9@saluki-news.wham.siu.edu>, jimd@dutton2.it.siu.edu (Jim Dutton) writes: >In trying to compile Top-3.4 under FreeBSD V2.0.5, I get the following >error: > > /usr/bin/gcc -O -c utils.c > utils.c:326: conflicting types for `sys_errlist' > /usr/include/stdio.h:244: previous declaration of `sys_errlist' > ### Error code 1 > > I've had this sort of error lots of times porting odd bits of code removing the declaration in the package being ported has _always_ worked. If you get errors after that they are nothing to do with the sys_errlist conflict and will need to be handled. I do find it annoying that a const violation is an error and not a warning. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steve O'Hara-Smith E-Mail: steveo@iol.ie