In article <1992Aug8.195137.25157@utstat.uucp> rafal@utstat.uucp (Rafal Kustra (summer student)) writes:
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>In article <1992Aug7.002749.11212@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> callison@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (James P. Callison) writes:
>>I'm having problems compiling Elm2.3 and mail from Mailpak1.2 (dated 18 July, I
>>think). On elm, it gets to the point where it trys to compile opt_utils, then
>>crashes with the following messages:
>>      opt_utils.c:287: conflicting types for 'strspn'
>>      /usr/include/string.h:42: previous declaration of 'strspn'
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>>Can someone give me an idea of how to get around this? (And how I seem to be 
>>the only one who is having troubles like this?)
>>
>
>No, you are not the lonely/only one with that. But for
>all those hackers (thanks to whom we have Linux) it's too
>trivial to report.-;) I'm C/**nix newbie but what I did was
>to temporally comment out relevant parts in /usr/include
>relevant .h files to get it to compile. Local mail works

I think you're better off doing "#ifndef linux" around the bits in the source
you are trying to compile, rather than taking out standard headers.  Otherwise 
you run the risk of having it define wrong argument types for system calls.

-- 
Steve Robbins  --  steve@nyongwa.cam.org
I asked Hank Williams "how lonely does it get?"
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