On Feb 3, 12:13pm, Matt Garretson wrote:
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} When trying to build Qpopper 4.0.18 on a fresh Fedora 11
} installation, I got this error:
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} popper.c: In function qpopper:
} popper.c:153: error: conflicting types for getline
} /usr/include/stdio.h:653: note: previous declaration of getline was here
}
} getline() is indeed defined in stdio.h . But, interestingly, the
} build succeeds under Fedora 10, which also has getline() in stdio.h.
} The difference between the two Fedoras seems to be that in
} Fedora 10, getline() is contained within an #ifdef __USE_GNU ,
} while in Fedora 11, it's contained within an #ifdef __USE_XOPEN2K8
We're seeing the same type of problem on NetBSD. It seems that
getline() is now a POSIX functions. This means that all apps must be
adapted to use the OS supplied getline() if it exists or rename their
internal getline().
}-- End of excerpt from Matt Garretson
