Re: gnuchess compilation error

I believe this is fixed in CVS version

http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group_id=134

Should be at or about release quality, as this was prepared for release 
of 5.08, we plan to release 6 shortly which is based on a different code 
base entirely.

  Simon

vishnumurthy prabhu wrote:
> I have downloaded tar ball of gnuchess-5.07. and I tried to build
> using following commands in the extracted directory.
> $sudo make ./configure
> $sudo make
> 
> ./configure went fine. but when compiling, It gave following error.
> 
> In file included from atak.c:29:
> common.h:748: error: ‘getline’ redeclared as different kind of symbol
> /usr/include/stdio.h:651: note: previous declaration of ‘getline’ was
> here
> 
> 
> 
> and It stopped there itself.
> 
> I am using ubuntu 10.04.
> gcc 4.4.3
> 
> 
> complete message upon "make" is as follows:
> 
> Making all in src
> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/vishnumurthy/Downloads/assignments/
> chess/gnuchess-5.07/src'
> make all-am
> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/vishnumurthy/Downloads/assignments/
> chess/gnuchess-5.07/src'
> if gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -pthread -g -O2 -MT atak.o -MD -MP -
> MF ".deps/atak.Tpo" \
> -c -o atak.o `test -f 'atak.c' || echo './'`atak.c; \
> then mv -f ".deps/atak.Tpo" ".deps/atak.Po"; \
> else rm -f ".deps/atak.Tpo"; exit 1; \
> fi
> In file included from atak.c:29:
> common.h:748: error: ‘getline’ redeclared as different kind of symbol
> /usr/include/stdio.h:651: note: previous declaration of ‘getline’ was
> here
> make[2]: *** [atak.o] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/vishnumurthy/Downloads/assignments/
> chess/gnuchess-5.07/src'
> make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/vishnumurthy/Downloads/assignments/
> chess/gnuchess-5.07/src'
> make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
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