RE: Balsa won't compile

[Mark Deneen <deneen bucknell edu>]

that's a glibc issue.  edit misc.c and add:

#include <errno.h>


That will fix it.

On 24-Jan-99 Ric Tibbetts wrote:
> Hi all!
>       I recently committed what seems to have ben a serious crime.
>       I updated my gnome installation to gnome 0.99.
>       While this improved some things in gnome, it broke some others (like
> balsa). Now when I try to compile the newer verion(s) of balsa, they fail
> with
> the following error(s):
> 
> gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I. -I../src -I.. -I/usr/include
> -DNEED_GNOMESUPPORT_H -I/usr/lib/gnome-libs/include -I/usr/X11R6/include
> -I/usr/lib/glib/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/lib/glib/include -O2
> -m486 -fno-strength-reduce -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -c
> misc.c
> misc.c: In function `readfile':
> misc.c:169: `errno' undeclared (first use this function)
> misc.c:169: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> misc.c:169: for each function it appears in.)
> misc.c:169: `EAGAIN' undeclared (first use this function)
> misc.c:169: `EINTR' undeclared (first use this function)
> make[2]: *** [misc.o] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/balsa-0.4.6.2/libbalsa'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/balsa-0.4.6.2'
> make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
> Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.94627 (%build)
> 
>       Has anyone else seen this, and how did you fix it? I'm not a
> programmer, so the errors are all greek to me. Can someone shed some light on
> it?
> 
>       Thanks a million! I'd like to try using balsa. I've been using kmail
> (puke) with all of it's bugs, and I ws hoping that balsa was far enough along
> to be useable.
> 
>       Thanks again!
> 
>               Ric
> 
> 
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