clone 238629 -1 retitle -1 x-dev: hideous namespace pollution in Xosdefs.h severity -1 normal thanks
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 06:30:48PM -0800, Daniel Schepler wrote: > Package: kali > Severity: serious > Version: 3.1-4 > > >From my build log: > > ... > cc -DXFORM -O2 -g -Wall -I/usr/include/X11 -c -o callbacks.o callbacks.c > In file included from /usr/include/X11/forms.h:1762, > from callbacks.c:80: > /usr/include/X11/Xlib.h:78: error: conflicting types for `wchar_t' > /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/3.3.3/include/stddef.h:325: error: previous > declaration of `wchar_t' > callbacks.c: In function `forms_init': > callbacks.c:181: warning: implicit declaration of function `winset' > callbacks.c:182: warning: implicit declaration of function `winconstraints' > callbacks.c: In function `SymmetryProc': > callbacks.c:225: warning: implicit declaration of function `scheduleRedraw' > callbacks.c: In function `PrintProc': > callbacks.c:361: warning: passing arg 2 of `fl_show_question' makes integer > from pointer without a cast > make[1]: *** [callbacks.o] Error 1 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/buildd/kali-3.1' > make: *** [build-stamp] Error 2 > > Looking at Xlib.h, it appears that the wchar_t definition normally > shouldn't be included, so my first guess would be that something is > confusing the X headers somehow. This is SO WRONG ... Xosdefs.h thinks that the presence of a definition of SX means that it's running on some strange non-POSIX PC Unix clone or other, and goes into crazy mode. If I rename SX to something else, it's fine. I'll apply a workaround to kali, but this is hideous namespace pollution on the part of Xosdefs.h. Can we just ditch most of that file in Debian? The __GNU__ bit at the end is the only part that seems possibly relevant. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
