Re: Compiling daemontools

Yes. That is a obsolete method to link in errno.  Multithreaded systems
need errno to be thread-specific, and so the interface to errno was
changed some time ago. There isn't an extern int errno anymore. The
anachronism 'extern errno' shouldn't link on any system, and doesn't on
most systems.  But its a common thing found in older code.

<errno.h> will define errno to do the right thing for your thread model.

When I get a new distribution ready, I'll be sure to have this fixed.

		--Dean

On Mon, 19 Apr 2010, Miles Wilton wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I had to alter src/error.h to get daemontools to compile on openSuSE:
> 
> Replaced the line
> 
> extern int errno;
> 
> with
> 
> #include <errno.h>
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Miles.
> 
> 

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