Re: [vile] Errors building vile on FreeBSD

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, address@hidden wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 04:35:01PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 03:22:37PM -0500, address@hidden wrote:
> > > > Looks like a workaround would be to define __wchar_t (untested).
> > > Where would I define that?
> >
> > setenv CPPFLAGS=-D__wchar_t
> > before configure, for instance.
> I still get the error:-
>
>    cd filters && make - prefix=/home/isbd DESTDIR= all
>    gcc -c -I. -I.  -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -D__wchar_t -D_BSD_TYPES
>    -D__BSD_VISIBLE -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200112L -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=600
>    -DVILE_ICON=\"icons/vile.xbm\"
>    -DVILE_LIBDIR_PATH=\"'/home/isbd/lib/vile'\"
>    -DVILE_STARTUP_PATH=\"'/home/isbd/share/vile'\" -g -O2
>    -DHELP_LOC=\"/home/isbd/share/vile\" curses.c
>    In file included from tcap.h:38,
>                     from curses.c:16:
>    /usr/include/curses.h:236: conflicting types for `wchar_t'
>    /usr/include/stddef.h:59: previous declaration of `wchar_t'
>    *** Error code 1
>
>
> However a bit of creative mucking about and I've got it to build, I
> did "export CPPFLAGS=-D_WCHAR_T" and it builds successfully.

thanks (I'll make a note to revisit this and test-build the different
combinations there).

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