Re: Emacs compile problem (mbsinit unresolved)

[Benjamin Riefenstahl]

Hi Doug,


Doug Chinnery <doug.chinnery@zadall.com> writes:
> Undefined                     first referenced
>  symbol                           in file
> mbsinit                             strftime.o
> temacs: fatal error: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to temacs

The Emacs 21.3 version of src/strftime.c believes that if you have
mbrlen(), you must also have mbsinit() without explicitly checking for
the latter function.  That seems not to be true on your system.  Emacs
in CVS allows for that possibility, but 21.3 doesn't.

Add this line in src/strftime.c to patch it up, and let us know how it
goes:

  #define mbsinit(ps) (*(ps) == 0)


Hope this helps, benny