Re: Compilation problem...

[Martin Grabmueller]

> From: Sergio Alejandro Gonzalez <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 12:23:43 -0300
> 
> Please Help...
> 
> I need to have guile installed in my RH7.0, but although ./configure works 
> fine make fails.
> This are the last lines that  "make" outputs:
> 
> /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.. -I./.. 
> -I../libltdl    -g -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -c net_db.c
> rm -f .libs/net_db.lo
> gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.. -I./.. -I../libltdl -g -O2 -Wall 
> -Wmissing-prototypes -c net_db.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/net_db.lo
> net_db.c:85: conflicting types for `inet_aton'
> /usr/local/include/arpa/inet.h:74: previous declaration of `inet_aton'
> make[1]: *** [net_db.lo] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/Sergio/guile-1.4/libguile'
> make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> 
> Although I believe this is not a guile related problem, i have the kernel 
> include file and everything fine in usr/local/inlude and in 
> usr/src/linux/include...

Well, somehow it is a Guile problem.  In the development version of
Guile, this is already fixed.

A workaround is to comment out the line which causes this error:

> net_db.c:85: conflicting types for `inet_aton'

Then everything should build fine.

Regards,
  'martin