On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 02:55:23PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >cc -c -I../. -g -I. metamail.c > >In file included from metamail.c:47: > >/usr/include/signal.h:117: parse error before `-' > >/usr/include/signal.h:117: parse error before `int' > >make[1]: *** [metamail.o] Error 1 > >make[1]: Leaving directory > >`/home/potato/dist/home/mike/debian/metamail-2.7/metamail' > >make: *** [basics] Error 2 > > > >I would have fixed that when a '-' would have been in line 117 of signal.h, > >but there is none. Any suggestions? > > Try 'cc -E -I.. metamail.c' to look at what the preprocessor outputs: > > extern int kill(-( __pid_t __pgrp ), ( int __sig )) ; > > 'cc -E -dD -I.. metamail.c' (show macro definitions) has the > illuminating line in ../config.h: > > #define killpg(a, b) kill(-(a), (b)) > > ... which triggers on a definition, not just on a call. D'oh. > > config.h seems to think Linux is SysV (well, it sort of is ...), and > redefines loads of stuff Linux already has. Getting rid of that causes > more problems, though (starting with parameter types to signal() being > wrong); let us know how far you get. > Thanx for that answere, nevertheless I have traced it myself to config.h and I decided to convert all that stuff over to automake&autoconf so that problems with mutiple #define .... are not going to happen anymore in future.
-- kind regards, Michael Moerz
