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.
(though another thought occurs to me - if you're still confusing the ncurses'
curses.h with solaris' version that'll break every time)
  
> > 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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