According to Michael Trausch: While burning my CPU.
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> Either you need to upgrade gcc, or you need to fix the errors in the
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Oops no, i think its a question of, trying to compile an "old" version of
bash with a "too new" version of "libc". I say this because the origanal
asker said, "in order to upgrade to glibc"..
gcc 2.7.2.x sounds ok to me.
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> It appears as if it's just the source code that might have a buggie in it
> ;)... but I heard that bash is now to 2.03 or 2.05 now... make sure you
> have the latest.
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> - Mike
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> On Sat, 20 Feb 1999, Gernot Kerschbaumer wrote:
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> > dear linuxers,
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> > in order to upgrade to glibc, i want to install bash-2.0 (since the
> > glibc-howto tells that bash-2.0 is required to build glibc from source).
> >
> > i've the sources but compiling (with gcc version 2.7.2.3) gives the
> > following errors:
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> > GoodNight:~/Source/bash-2.0$ make
> > rm -f shell.o
> > gcc -DPROGRAM='"bash"' -DHOSTTYPE='"i586-unknown-linux"'
>-DOSTYPE='"i586-unknown-linux"' -DMACHTYPE='"i586-unknown-l
> > inux"' -DSHELL -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I./lib -g -O2 -c shell.c
> > In file included from shell.h:35,
> > from shell.c:51:
> > sig.h:33: parse error before `SigHandler'
> > sig.h:33: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
> > sig.h:110: parse error before `termination_unwind_protect'
> > sig.h:110: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
> > sig.h:111: parse error before `sigint_sighandler'
> > sig.h:111: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
> > sig.h:119: parse error before `*'
> > sig.h:119: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
> > In file included from shell.h:37,
> > from shell.c:51:
> > externs.h:99: conflicting types for `strncasecmp'
> > /usr/include/string.h:177: previous declaration of `strncasecmp'
> > externs.h:100: conflicting types for `strcasecmp'
> > /usr/include/string.h:167: previous declaration of `strcasecmp'
> > externs.h:114: conflicting types for `setlinebuf'
> > /usr/include/stdio.h:144: previous declaration of `setlinebuf'
> > make: *** [shell.o] Error 1
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> >
> > does this mean that i have to upgrade gcc (which i can't believe)?
> >
> > thanks in advance,
> > gernot
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