Re: [bug-inetutils] i can't make inetutils-1.4.2 under OSF1 V5.1 2650 alpha

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

Thank you for the extremly detailed report. But it was a bit to
detailed, only the actual error is really useful. :-)

   if gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. 
-DPATH_WTMPX=\"/usr/local/var/log/wtmpx\"    -I../include    -g -O2 -MT 
xmalloc.o -MD -MP -MF ".deps/xmalloc.Tpo" \
     -c -o xmalloc.o `test -f 'xmalloc.c' || echo './'`xmalloc.c; \
   then mv ".deps/xmalloc.Tpo" ".deps/xmalloc.Po"; \
   else rm -f ".deps/xmalloc.Tpo"; exit 1; \
   fi
   xmalloc.c:37:19: error.h: No such file or directory

Seems that you hit an old bug, could you try the CVS version of
inetutils?  See http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/inetutils on how to
download the CVS version. It got fixed by the following:

 2003-04-21  Sergey Poznyakoff  <address@hidden>

        * setenv.c: Provide an extern declaration of
        environ if necessary
        * xmalloc.c: Use err() instead of error().


The ld errors that you got after copying some random header are
probobly because error() can't be located.  Just copying a header
isn't usually a good idea, since alot of things can differ, and you
still need the actual function.

Cheers.