Re: LYNX-DEV parse error

[T.E.Dickey]

> > i'm trying to compile lynx2-7-1 on my ultra solaris2.5.
> > Everything goes well just before Compiling Lynx sources, there this
> > is what i get:
...
> > /usr/include/curses.h:321: parse error before `__va_list'
> > /usr/include/curses.h:322: parse error before `__va_list'
... 
> Hit the same problem when compiling with HP-UX. Looks like the varargs.h
... 
> Any one looking into this aspect of conditional compile ? There seem to be
> some problems with the varargs.h file with HP-UX/Solaris.
probably gcc was configured (and built) for an older version of
HP-UX/Solaris.  I've seen that several times before -it would explain your
success in pointing it directly to its shadow headers.  For instance, my
ISP had Solaris 2.4 and 2.5 running, with gcc compiled for 2.4 - so I could
not compile curses applications on 2.5 because it had a header mismatch.
It's easy to see if you look at the directory-structure, since gcc
has the canonical version embedded, e.g.,

        /usr/local
        |   |---lib/
        |   |   |---gcc-lib/
        |   |   |   |---sparc-sun-solaris2.3/
        |   |   |   |   |---2.5.8/
        |   |   |   |   |---2.7.0/
        |   |   |   |   |   |---include/ 
        |   |   |   |---sparc-sun-solaris2.5/
        |   |   |   |   |---2.7.2/
        |   |   |   |   |   |---include/

(it's not something that we should address in the configure script)

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
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