Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx compile time error on AIX

[Klaus Weide]

On Fri, 17 Oct 1997, Jim Chivas wrote:

> Greetings: I have added below a script capture of the ./config and then
> make. If you look at the last few lines in this email you will see an
> error message I don't know what to do with.
> 
> Can you offer any help or suggestions?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Jim

[ big snip ]

>         gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H  -I.. -I../WWW/Library/Implementation  -O2 -DAIX4 
> -D_BSD=44  -c ./LYLocal.c
> 
> ./LYLocal.c: In function `LYExecv':
> ./LYLocal.c:2242: request for member `w_status' in something not a structure 
> or union
> ./LYLocal.c:2242: request for member `w_status' in something not a structure 
> or union
> ./LYLocal.c:2243: request for member `w_status' in something not a structure 
> or union
> ./LYLocal.c:2243: request for member `w_status' in something not a structure 
> or union
> ./LYLocal.c:2243: request for member `w_status' in something not a structure 
> or union
> make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 1.

There is something wrong with the logic about HAVE_TYPE_UNIONWAIT and
HAVE_WAITPID and AIX4 it seems.  I hope Tom can look into it.
Apparently WEXITSTATUS and WTERMSIG expect a (union wait) argument but
configure and the logic in LYLocal.c have decided to make wstatus an it.

In the meantime you should be able to compile by moving the line 

#endif /* DIRED_SUPPORT */

from before

PUBLIC int LYExecv ARGS3(

in src/LYLocal.c  to the very end of the file and running configure with
the --disable-dired flag (you obviously then won't get the dired disk
functions).

Or you might just remove the lines

            if (WEXITSTATUS(wstatus) != 0 ||
                WTERMSIG(wstatus) > 0)  { /* error return */
                sprintf(tmpbuf, "Probable failure to %s due to system error!",
                                msg);
                rc = 0;
            }

with the effect that some errors from dired functions won't get
detected.


     Klaus

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