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From: ericblake AT comcast DOT net (Eric Blake)
To: "Br. Nirmalachaitanya" <nirmalachaitanya AT gmail DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: getline error with make
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 04:07:25 +0000
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> 
> When trying to 'make' FontForge on Cygwin, we get the following error.
> 
> gimagereadxpm.c:128: error: conflicting types for 'getline'
> /usr/include/sys/stdio.h.31: error: previous declaration of 'getline' 
> was here

This has already been brought up on this list:
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-01/msg01217.html

> Hope there might be some solution to this problem, from one or both 
> sides. . .

Both.  Cygwin CVS has already guarded the declaration with
_GNU_SOURCE, so it is not exposed in a strict compilation
environment.  And FontForge should realize that the Austin
group is considering including the GNU definition of readline
as a mandatory function in the next version of POSIX, so any
application that wants to use their own version needs to
be aware that a standardized version will likely also exist
soon.

-- 
Eric Blake

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