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From: chmr@fstgds01.tu-graz.ac.at (Christoph Robitschko)
Subject: Re: Anyone ported GNU-make to 386BSD ?
Message-ID: <1992Sep6.081615.635@news.tu-graz.ac.at>
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Date: Sun, 6 Sep 92 08:16:15 GMT
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In article <1992Sep6.015703.23272@nrao.edu> cflatter@nrao.edu writes:
>In article 19476@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE, gebhart@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Ralf Gebhart) writes:
>>I need gmake to install the GNU-netfax package. It would be much work
>>to rewrite the package to be compatible to usual make.
>>After playing aroung with some defines I got gmake compiled but it 
>>keeps core-dumping.
>
>That's the easy problem: you need to make sure that the files that reference
>glob() include <glob.h> and not "glob/glob.h".  The glob_t structure declared
>in "glob/glob.h" is two words shorter than the one used by the BSD glob() so
>glob() clobbers some local variables.
>
So it should be renamed to clob() ?  8->

								Christoph
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Christoph M. Robitschko  | "the only man who got his work done by Friday
chmr@edvz.tu-graz.ac.at  |             was Robinson Crusoe."