Re: telnetd-sys_term.c

[Alain Magloire]

> 
> Hi there,
>       I may be doing something wrong, so I have my asbestos jacket on (feel 
> free to flame me).  
> 
>       I can happily compile all the inetutils apps except telnetd.  
> 
>       In the telnetd directory all files compile, except sys_term.c which 
> bombs.  I have the response from gcc and the result from cpp if you want 
> them.  The problem seems to come down to the utmp struct, which is never 
> defined according to the result from
> cpp.  utmpx is defined but like I say not utmp, so it complains appropriately 
> as soon as struct utmp is used.  
> 
>       I've tried this with 1.3.2 1.3a and 1.3b the same error arrises each 
> time.  Once I remove telnetd (replace it with libtelnet so it appears to be 
> there) the whole package (inetutils) builds fine.  
> 
>         I thought it a good idea to check the existence of utmp. this is what 
> I got
> 
> kenny:/# find -name utmp*
> ./usr/share/man/man5/utmp.5.gz
> ./usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux/bits/utmp.ph
> ./usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux/utmp.ph
> ./usr/include/bits/utmp.h
> ./usr/include/bits/utmpx.h
> ./usr/include/utmp.h
> ./usr/include/utmpx.h
> ./var/run/utmp
> 
>       I'm using debian 2.2r3, but the debian bits are minimal, as I'm trying 
> to build everything myself, rather than using .deb files.  
> 
>       Any ideas?

Get
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/inetutils/inetutils-1.3.2f.tar.gz

I beleive this was corrected.  If it still failed then let us know.

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alain