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Re: lynx-dev Compile error on i686/linux RH 6.2
From: |
Klaus Weide |
Subject: |
Re: lynx-dev Compile error on i686/linux RH 6.2 |
Date: |
Fri, 7 Apr 2000 10:44:23 -0500 (CDT) |
On Thu, 6 Apr 100, T.E.Dickey wrote:
> > I get the following output when trying to compile lynx-2.8.3pre2 on my
> > system :
>
> this is a bug in glibc 2.1.3, which the maintainers thereof were told more
> than a month ago. (someone defined a symbol 'ERR' for a register name).
>
> It has other neat side effects (breaks makedepend in XFree86 for xterm ;-).
>
> -- until they get around to fixing it, your workaround would be to
> modify that ucontext.h file - change it to 'GLIBC_ERROR' I suppose...
>
> -- probably wouldn't hurt to email the glibc maintainers, since the last
> email I saw on the topic indicated they weren't in a hurry to fix it.
Debian has fixed it in their glibc development package, see
<http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/59/59962.html>, quoting from that:
> Fix strategy: Ulrich Drepper mentioned this will be fixed by adding
> prefixed to the defines in uconfig.h .
So it seems the glibc maintainers are aware of the problem and don't need
more e-mail.
Klaus