dlerror isn't declared, and isn't a standard function

On 23 January 2012 08:13, steve <steve@quintile.net> wrote:

> I must have missed that one,
> From your old report it seems tr problem is at line 432 of test1.bac.h
>
> Can you reproduce the error?
>
> -Steve
>
> On 23 Jan 2012, at 06:47 AM, Jens Staal <staal1978@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 2012/1/18 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.
> >>
> >
> > I have a similar issue with BaCon (a ksh script converting BASIC code
> > to C), a modified version running under APE sh can be found here:
> >
> > http://code.google.com/p/ports2plan9/source/browse/BaCon
> >
> > Also this one has the problem 'incompatible types "IND CONST CHAR" and
> > "INT" for op "AS"'
> >
> > and I have not been able to track down exactly where in the script
> > that the erroneous code gets generated.
> >
> > issue described here:
> > http://code.google.com/p/ports2plan9/issues/detail?id=1
> >
> > I have already added the -D_BSD_EXTENSION in the CFLAGS in the script.
>
>