Re: [9fans] ape compiler error, IND CHAR and INT

[John Floren <john@jfloren.net>]

On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Martin Harriss <martin@princeton.edu> wrote:
> John Floren wrote:
>>
>> I figured I'd try building Python from the source on their website
>> just for kicks. Configure went ok, but when I went to run "make", it
>> soon bailed out with this error:
>>
>> cc -c -OPT:Olimit=0 -g -DNDEBUG -O  -I. -IInclude -I./Include
>> -DPy_BUILD_CORE -o Parser/grammar.o Parser/grammar.c
>> cc: flag -P ignored
>> cc: flag -: ignored
>> cc: can't find library for -l
>> /usr/john/Python-2.7.2/Parser/grammar.c:46[stdin:12906] incompatible
>> types: "IND CHAR" and "INT" for op "AS"
>> /usr/john/Python-2.7.2/Parser/grammar.c:108[stdin:12968] incompatible
>> types: "IND CHAR" and "INT" for op "AS"
>> cc: cpp: 8c 896765: error
>> *** Error code 1
>> #
>>
>> The offending lines are these:
>>
>>    d->d_name = strdup(name);
>> and
>>    lb->lb_str = strdup(str);
>>
>> d_name and lb_str are both defined as char*, and strdup is supposed to
>> return a char*. However, if I'm reading that error message correctly,
>> it thinks strdup is trying to return a char*. Does anyone recognize
>> what's going on?
>
>
> No declaration in scope for the string functions, compiler thinks they
> return INT?
>
> Martin
>

Yup, I r dum, needed a -D_BSD_EXTENSION in my flags to make string.h
behave right.