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From: hart@apanix.apana.org.au (Leigh Hart)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: dirent.h
Date: 9 Dec 1993 01:25:43 +1030
Organization: APANIX Public Access Unix, Australia, +61-8-373-5485 (3 lines)
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altitude@css.itd.umich.edu (Alex Tang) writes:
>Hi. I'm running NetBSD-0.8. I'm trying to build httpd, but i'm having a
>peculiar problem. I keep getting errors from within the file
>/usr/include/dirent.h, (when i use cc), and
>/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/i386--bsd.4.3/2.4.3/include (when I use gcc-2.4.5),
>it's saying:
>cc -c -g -O -traditional http_config.c
>In file included from /usr/include/sys/dir.h:44, from httpd.h:83, from
>http_config.c:9:
>/usr/include/dirent.h:48: syntax error before `u_long'
>I'm confused. What do i need to do?
From experience this is because the compiler doesn't know what u_long is.
u_long is type defined (typedef) in <sys/types.h> as an unsigned long,
and if <sys/types.h> is not included before a header file that uses
these definitions, then you get syntax errors.
Just thwack
#include <sys/types.h>
in the top of your source file (http_config.c) and it should be
hunky dory. (before dir.h, as dir.h includes dirent.h)
Cheers
Leigh
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