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Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 15:51:57 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Does CVS build?
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In-Reply-To: <3B7AEC05.7FBF0C8C@yahoo.com>; from earnie_boyd@yahoo.com on Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 03:39:17PM -0600

On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 03:39:17PM -0600, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>Jason Tishler wrote:
>> 
>> After doing a fresh checkout a few hours ago, I got the following build
>> error:
>> 
>>     gcc ... ../../../src/libiberty/strerror.c
>>     ../../../src/libiberty/strerror.c:465: warning: static declaration for `sys_nerr' follows non-static
>>     ../../../src/libiberty/strerror.c:466: conflicting types for `sys_errlist'
>>     /home/jt/src/cygwin/src/newlib/libc/include/sys/errno.h:21: previous declaration of `sys_errlist'
>>     make[1]: *** [strerror.o] Error 1
>>     make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jt/src/cygwin/build/i686-pc-cygwin/libiberty'
>>     make: *** [all-target-libiberty] Error 2
>> 
>> I was able to workaround the above by applying the attached patch.
>> 
>> Is this cockpit error?  Or, does CVS currently not build?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Jason
>> 
>>   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> 
>>    error.h.diffName: error.h.diff
>>                Type: Plain Text (text/plain)
>
>
>This is caused by the following patch.  What's up Chris?
>
>Mon Aug 13 22:26:01 2001  Christopher Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
>
>        * libc/include/sys/errno.h: Declare sys_errlist and sys_nerr,
>under
>        Cygwin.

WIP.  I know that you will all use your substantial programming skills
to work around this problem while libiberty is being fixed.

cgf