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Subject:  Re: Compiling from cvs and duplicate definition error on strsignal
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:02:38 +0000 (UTC)
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Brian Keener <bkeenerReMoVeAnTiSpAm <at> thesoftwaresource.com> writes:

> 
> I was compiling a debug version of Cygwin after updating from current 
> cvs (starting from scratch) and got a conflicting types error on 
> definition of strsignal building libiberty/strsignal.c :
> at line 409 of strsignal.c in  
> /usr/develop/src/src/src/libiberty/strsignal.c 
> vs
> line 79 of string.h in 
> /usr/develop/src/src/src/newlib/libc/include/string.h.

That merely means that both libiberty's strsignal.c and cygwin's strsig.cc 
conflict with the upcoming POSIX 200x definition of strsignal to return char* 
rather than const char *, and that they haven't caught up with my newlib patch 
from this morning where I fixed the same bug in newlib.  For that matter, why 
does building cygwin trigger a build of libiberty, since we obviously don't use 
libiberty's strsignal.c?  The libiberty bug should probably be reported to the 
gcc and/or gdb list; and I've been meaning to post a patch for cygwin's side of 
the bug.

-- 
Eric Blake



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