Eric Hanchrow wrote:
>
> I'm trying to build lyx on a system running the as-yet-unreleased
> version of Debian Linux, code-named `potato'. This system uses version
> 2.1.2 of the GNU C library; this version apparantly has a slightly
> different prototype for `select' than did previous versions.
You didn't mention what the compiler version is. However I suspect that
you have gcc-2.95.1 as these later releases of gcc tend to fail a couple
of tests in the configure script. Select() is one such test.
There are mods done to the latest prerelease, 1.0.4pre6, to counter this.
In the meantim
