Re: LYNX-DEV Confused about the development version

[T.E.Dickey]

> I am confused.
> 
> For the three or more patches available at
> http://www.slcc.edu/cgi-bin/lynx/patch-o-matic.cgi
> I've been either unable to get the code to compile or at least run.
> 
> What I've not been able to figure out is whether the problem is that
> the Sun compiler and OS is just unique, or if perhaps the above URL
> isn't the one that we should use to get the latest code.
in general, this problem is from referencing a struct that's not fully
defined (gcc is a little too tolerant of this).  I'll pick it up tomorrow
or Tuesday when I do some rebuilding on the machines at work.
 
> Anyways, I fetched 0.28 of the development version.  I did a make clean
> and then reran the configure and then a make generic.  This is Solaris 2.4
> on a SPARC with Sun's compiler.  Here's the error I get.
> 
> cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.4/include 
> -I/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.4/include/ncurses -I.. 
> -I../WWW/Library/Implementation  -DDIRED_SUPPORT  -DOK_TAR -DOK_ZIP -DOK_GZIP 
> -DOK_UUDECODE -DOK_OVERRIDE -DOK_PERMIT  -DEXP_CHARTRANS -DHAVE_CONFIG_H 
> -I/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.4/include 
> -I/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.4/include/ncurses -I.. 
> -I../WWW/Library/Implementation  -DDIRED_SUPPORT  -DOK_TAR -DOK_ZIP -DOK_GZIP 
> -DOK_UUDECODE -DOK_OVERRIDE -DOK_PERMIT  -DEXP_CHARTRANS -g -c ./LYCurses.c
> "./LYCurses.c", line 232: identifier redeclared: curses_w_style
>       current : function(pointer to struct _win_st {short _cury, short _curx, 
> short _maxy, short _maxx, short _begy, short _begx, short _fla...
>       previous: function(pointer to struct _win_st {short _cury, short _curx, 
> short _maxy, short _maxx, short _begy, short _begx, short _fla... : 
> "./LYCurses.h", line 126
> cc: acomp failed for ./LYCurses.c
> *** Error code 2
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `LYCurses.o'
> Current working directory 
> /projects/npd/npdweb/src/Unix/lynx/test/lynx2-7-1/src
> *** Error code 1
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `generic'

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Thomas E. Dickey
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