Re: warnings important?

[Raja R Harinath <harinath cs umn edu>]

Michael Harnois <mharnois@willinet.net> writes:
> Are either of these warnings something that should be attended to? I'm 
> running egcs-1.1.1-prerelease3 and glibc-2.0.104.
> 
> /usr/include/jconfig.h:12: warning: `HAVE_STDLIB_H' redefined
> ../config.h:285: warning: this is the location of the previous definition

This is OK.  The JPEG includes pollute the HAVE_ namespace.

> In file included from plc.c:162:
> XmHTMLfuncs.h:336: warning: `strdup' redefined
> /usr/include/bits/string2.h:1037: warning: this is the location of the previous definition

I'm not sure about this.  I expect `XmHTMLfuncs.h' to define an useful
`strdup', but why does it define it in the first place?  I don't think
this warning needs alarm us too much, though.

- Hari
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