Re: lynx-dev Compile error on i686/linux RH 6.2

[T.E.Dickey]

> I get the following output when trying to compile lynx-2.8.3pre2 on my 
> system : 

this is a bug in glibc 2.1.3, which the maintainers thereof were told more
than a month ago.  (someone defined a symbol 'ERR' for a register name).

It has other neat side effects (breaks makedepend in XFree86 for xterm ;-).

-- until they get around to fixing it, your workaround would be to 
modify that ucontext.h file - change it to 'GLIBC_ERROR' I suppose...

-- probably wouldn't hurt to email the glibc maintainers, since the last
email I saw on the topic indicated they weren't in a hurry to fix it.
  
> make[1]: Entering directory `/root/lynx2-8-3/src' 
> Compiling Lynx sources 
> cd chrtrans && make \ 
>         SITE_DEFS="" \ 
>         CFLAGS="-O2 -DLINUX -D_GNU_SOURCE " \ 
>         CPPFLAGS="" \ 
>         CC="gcc" tables 
> make[2]: Entering directory `/root/lynx2-8-3/src/chrtrans' 
> make[2]: Nothing to be done for `tables'. 
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/lynx2-8-3/src/chrtrans' 
> gcc  -DHAVE_CONFIG_H  -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/share/locale\" -I. -I.. 
> -Ichrtrans -I./chrtrans -I.. -I../src -I../WWW/Library/Implementation 
> -O2 -DLINUX -D_GNU_SOURCE  -c ./LYClean.c 
> In file included from /usr/include/ucontext.h:27, 
>                  from /usr/include/signal.h:317, 
>                  from LYSignal.h:5, 
>                  from ./LYClean.c:4: 
> /usr/include/sys/ucontext.h:74: warning: `ERR' redefined 
> /usr/include/curses.h:195: warning: this is the location of the 
> previous definition 
> In file included from /usr/include/ucontext.h:27, 
>                  from /usr/include/signal.h:317, 
>                  from LYSignal.h:5, 
>                  from ./LYClean.c:4: 
> /usr/include/sys/ucontext.h:73: parse error before `(' 
> make[1]: *** [LYClean.o] Error 1 
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/lynx2-8-3/src' 
> make: *** [all] Error 2 
> --- 
>  
> I would really appreciate some suggestions on this. Is my system 
> broken, or is it a problem with the lynx distribution ? 
>  
> I checked the /usr/include/sys/ucontext.h file, but saw nothing 
> special. As I just installed a fresh RedHat 6.2, which is supposed 
> clean, it is surpising. 
>  
> Thanks in advance ! 
> --  
> Damien WYART / address@hidden 
> 


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