Re: lynx-dev lynx on aix4.3

[Giovanni Cutolo]

On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Klaus Weide wrote:

Thanks Klaus,
        your comment was definitively appropriate. After some time I have
gone back to my attempts and have managed to compile lynx after setting
CPPFLAGS to -D__BIT_TYPES_DEFINED__ to avoid conflicting re-definitions.
Thanks again.
                Giovanni Cutolo

> On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Giovanni Cutolo wrote:
> 
> > Dear all,
> > I am failing in trying to compile lynx2-8-2 on a IBM RISC 6000
> > (powerpc) machine with aix4.3. I have tried to compile it with both gcc
> > (version 2.95) and the system cc, but both compilers fail while busy with
> > 
> >     lynx2-8-2/WWW/Library/Implementation/HTParse.h.
> > 
> > Has anybody had similar problems? I can add that I have succesfully
> > compiled previous versions of lynx (lynx2.8 included) on the same machine,
> > with previous versions of aix.
> > 
> > I would really appreciate any help. By the way, I am not on the lynx-dev
> > list, so I would prefer to receive answers at my address
> > (address@hidden). Otherwise I'll check the archive.
> 
> > **********************************************
> > cd WWW/Library/Implementation && make CC="gcc" \
> >     LY_CFLAGS="-O2 -DAIX4 -D_BSD=44 -D_AIX " \
> >     CPPFLAGS="" \
> >     LYFLAGS=""
> > make[1]: Entering directory 
> > `/home/cutolo/NEWLINK/lynx2-8-2/WWW/Library/Implementation'
> > gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H   -I../../.. -I../../../src -I../../.. -I../../../src  
> > -I../../../WWW/Library/Implementation -O2 -DAIX4 -D_BSD=44 -D_AIX    
> > -I../../../WWW/Library/Implementation/ -DXMOSAIC_HACK -DACCESS_AUTH -c 
> > ../../../WWW/Library/Implementation/HT
> Parse.c
> > In file included from /usr/local/include/arpa/inet.h:68,
> >                  from ../../../WWW/Library/Implementation/tcp.h:646,
> >                  from ../../../WWW/Library/Implementation/HTUtils.h:425,
> >                  from ../../../WWW/Library/Implementation/HTParse.c:5:
> > /usr/local/include/sys/bitypes.h:25: conflicting types for `int8_t'
> > /usr/include/sys/inttypes.h:49: previous declaration of `int8_t'
> > /usr/local/include/sys/bitypes.h:26: warning: redefinition of `u_int8_t'
> > /usr/include/sys/inttypes.h:618: warning: `u_int8_t' previously declared 
> > here
> 
> Obviously you have one set of headers under /usr/include, and another
> one under /usr/local/include, and they conflict with each other.
> I'd say that machine is in a sick state.  Where do those headers under
> /usr/local/include[/sys] come from?  Are they there by accident?
> Or was gcc somehow not completely installed? (or re-installed when the
> OS was upgraded?)
> 
> Mayvbe we could work around the apparent problem with some changes in
> the lynx code, but I don't think that would solve your real problem.
> 
> 
> 
>     Klaus
> 
>