Re: Can someone solve this apparently SuSE 8.0 related issue?

[Jon Svendsen <jon-sven frisurf no>]

On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 16:57, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> 
> In file included from properties.c:39:
> /usr/include/apm.h:69: parse error before `*'
> /usr/include/apm.h:69: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
> line 69 in apm.h is: "extern FILE *s_popen(char *cmd, const char *type);"
> Anyone seen this elsewhere, or know what the issue is?

The error, with the gcc clarity we all know and love, means that the
symbol FILE is not found. This indicates either that the SuSE 8.0
apmd-devel package is pretty broken, perhaps outdated or out of synch
with the headers it is using, or that the header is in fact not provided
by apmd_devel at all (the reason I suggest this is that my own apm.h
does not contain any reference to s_popen, much less FILE).

The version number of the package, the complete header file, and diffs
against a current tarball version could help pinpointing the problem
exactly.