Re: Problem compiling star on Debian squeeze

Ruud Baart <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have compiled star many times in different Debian systems. After =

> downloading the needed dev-packages and after first compiling smake I =

> usually manage to compile star without problems. On Debian Squeeze (the =

> latest version of Debian) I can't compile star. Any help would be nice.
>
> This is the error:
>
> In file included from avoffset.c:32:
> ../include/schily/schily.h:246: error: conflicting types for ?getline?
> /usr/include/stdio.h:651: note: previous declaration of ?getline? was here
>
> When I remove the definition of getline in schily.h I get other similar =

> errors. After I have removed all other conflicting declarations, smake =

> fails to compile star because the definitions are not correct.
>
> I attach the output of smake (perhaps the list refuses attachements). =

> This is the result without modifying any include file.

You seem for unknown reasons use an old star version that does not yet have=
 a =

work around for a POSIX bug that was initiated by Ulrich Drepper (POSIX gra=
nts =

not to define "new" interfaces that are in conflict with existing published =

interfaces). The getline() from libschily has been defined around 1980 and =
thus =

is an existing interface that must not be changed by POSIX.

POSIX.1-2008 however did introduce a getline() with a conflicting interface =

and thus is in conflict with the POSIX basic rules.

Anyway, a workaround for this problem has been introduced in October 2008.

J=F6rg

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