Re: problem compiling balsa 0.9.4

[Carlos Morgado <chbm chbm nu>]

On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 12:49:45PM -0700, Julian M Catchen wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
> 
> I am trying to gt balsa 0.9.4 installed and can't seem to get it to compile.  I
> am running on a SuSE system.  This is the configureation I used followed by my
> compiler errors.
> 
> ================ Final configuration ===================
>     Installing into prefix: /usr/local
>       Using multithreading: yes
>  Using incomplete features: no
> Installing some files into  
>             Gnome's prefix: yes (may require root privileges)
>    Enable compile warnings: yes
>                Use GtkHTML: no
> 
> 
> 
> cc1: warnings being treated as errors
> /usr/include/bits/string2.h: In function `__strcpy_small':
> In file included from /usr/include/string.h:346,
>                  from /opt/gnome/include/libgnomeui/gnome-mdi-session.h:10,
>                  from /opt/gnome/include/libgnomeui/libgnomeui.h:99,
>                  from /opt/gnome/include/gnome.h:17,
>                  from libbalsa_private.h:23,
>                  from message.c:32:
> /usr/include/bits/string2.h:419: warning: pointer of type `void *' used in
> arithmetic
> /usr/include/bits/string2.h:427: warning: pointer of type `void *' used in
> arithmetic
> /usr/include/bits/string2.h:432: warning: pointer of type `void *' used in
> arithmetic
> /usr/include/bits/string2.h:437: warning: pointer of type `void *' used in
> arithmetic
> /usr/include/bits/string2.h:439: warning: pointer of type `void *' used in
> arithmetic
> /usr/include/bits/string2.h:444: warning: pointer of type `void *' used in
> arithmetic
> make[2]: *** [message.o] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/catchen/source/prog/balsa-0.9.4/libbalsa'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/catchen/source/prog/balsa-0.9.4'
> make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
> 

/usr/include/bits/string2.h is glibc internals. this means your gcc doesn't
like your glibc version. SuSE issue.
what are your gcc(egcs) and glibc versions ?

i think someone had this same problem with slackware(the forever broken
distro :)).

cheers

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