Re: [wdiff-bugs] New version (0.5.90) available for testing

[Santiago Vila]

Build failure for version 0.5.90:

$ ./configure; make
creating cache ./config.cache
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
checking for working aclocal... found
checking for working autoconf... found
checking for working automake... found
checking for working autoheader... found
checking for working makeinfo... found
checking how to suppress newlines using echo... option
checking for gnudiff... no
checking for diffgnu... no
checking for gdiff... no
checking for diff... /usr/bin/diff
checking for less... /usr/bin/less
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) works... yes
checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) is a cross-compiler... no
checking whether we are using GNU C... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for AIX... no
checking for minix/config.h... no
checking for POSIXized ISC... no
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking for function prototypes... yes
checking for working const... yes
checking for inline... inline
checking for locale.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking return type of signal handlers... void
checking for size_t... yes
checking for malloc in -lmalloc... no
checking for tputs in -ltermcap... yes
checking for termcap.h... yes
checking for strerror... yes
checking for working alloca.h... yes
checking for alloca... yes
checking for vprintf... yes
checking for strstr... yes
checking whether NLS is wanted... yes
checking for gettext... yes
checking for gettext in -lintl... no
checking whether the included gettext is preferred... yes
checking for locale.h... (cached) yes
checking for setlocale... yes
checking for stpcpy... yes
checking for LC_MESSAGES... yes
checking which translations to install... cs de es fr nl no pl ru sv
checking for working malloc... yes
checking for working realloc... yes
checking if malloc debugging is wanted... no
updating cache ./config.cache
creating ./config.status
creating Makefile
creating doc/Makefile
creating i18n/Makefile
creating lib/Makefile
creating m4/Makefile
creating src/Makefile
creating src/cbars
creating tests/Makefile
creating tests/atconfig
creating config.h
make  all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/wdiff-0.5.90'
Making all in m4
make[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/wdiff-0.5.90/m4'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/wdiff-0.5.90/m4'
Making all in doc
make[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/wdiff-0.5.90/doc'
Updating ./version.texi
cd . \
          && makeinfo `echo wdiff.texi | sed 's,.*/,,'`
make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/wdiff-0.5.90/doc'
Making all in i18n
make[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/wdiff-0.5.90/i18n'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/wdiff-0.5.90/i18n'
Making all in lib
make[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/wdiff-0.5.90/lib'
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I.. -I.    -g -O2 -c regex.c
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I.. -I.    -g -O2 -c error.c
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I.. -I.    -g -O2 -c getline.c
getline.c:143: error: conflicting types for 'getline'
/usr/include/bits/stdio.h:103: error: previous definition of 'getline' was here
getline.c:152: error: conflicting types for 'getdelim'
/usr/include/stdio.h:564: error: previous declaration of 'getdelim' was here
make[2]: *** [getline.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/wdiff-0.5.90/lib'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/wdiff-0.5.90'
make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2


The system is Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (aka etch) on the amd64 architecture,
which is a 64-bit arch, but I don't know if that matters. Version 0.5g
fails with the same error, but I never bothered to check until now.

Thanks.