Re: Compile error on Solaris 8

[Andrew Nesbit <alnesbit@optushome.com.au>]

On Thursday, October 24, 2002, at 02:34 AM, Bart Schaefer wrote:

> On Oct 24, 10:41am, alnesbit@optushome.com.au wrote:
> } Subject: Compile error on Solaris 8
> }
> } params.epro:45: previous declaration of `hashchar'
>
> What does that line of params.epro look like?

params.c has this:

unsigned char hatchar, hashchar;

but params.epro has this:

extern unsigned hashchar;

> The .epro files are automatically generated, so the most likely problem
> is with the awk script that generates those files (or the way your awk
> interprets the script).

AWK is defined in the Makefile as gawk.

$ gawk -V
Gnu Awk (gawk) 2.11, patchlevel 1

[BTW, it also fails on our Solaris 7 machines, which have the same gawk 
version.]

Thanks.

Andrew.