Re: build error on my system (Mac OS 10.4.5)

[Kevin Ryde]

Jay Cotton <address@hidden> writes:
>
> In file included from /usr/include/netinet/in.h:78,
>                  from /usr/include/netdb.h:86,
>                  from posix.c:122:
> /usr/include/sys/socket.h:99: error: two or more data types in
> declaration specifiers

What does that offending sys/socket.h:99 line say?

It's probably some extra header required before including <netdb.h>.
See if the man page for gethostbyname says how it should look.