Tom Lane writes: > We've gotten several different reports lately of peculiar compilation > errors and warnings involving readline in 7.1. They look like configure > is actively doing the wrong thing --- for example, how could we see > reports like this: > > tab-complete.c:734: `filename_completion_function' undeclared (first use in this >function) > tab-complete.c:734: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once > tab-complete.c:734: for each function it appears in.) > > when the code makes a point of providing a declaration for > filename_completion_function if configure didn't see it in the headers? Because (a) the readline dudes changed the type of filename_completion_function in version 4.2 from extern char *filename_completion_function __P((char *, int)); to extern char *filename_completion_function __P((const char *, int)); and (b) the readline dudes commented out (#if 0) the declaration of filename_completion_function in the header in favour of the new rl_filename_completion_function (but left the symbol in the library). Other symbols were treated similarly, leading to implicit declarations with ints. Needless to say, the readline developers deserve to be shot for doing this in a minor release. -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://yi.org/peter-e/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://www.postgresql.org/search.mpl
