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From: jimd@dutton2.it.siu.edu (Jim Dutton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Sys_errlist conflict with Top3-4 compile
Date: 22 Apr 1996 20:49:35 GMT
Organization: Southern Illinois University - Carbondale
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In article <4l3qq5$6dq@uriah.heep.sax.de>,
	j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:
>jimd@dutton2.it.siu.edu (Jim Dutton) writes:

>>Top's utils.c:326 has:
>>
>>	extern char *sys_errlist[];
>>
>>/usr/include/stdio.h:244 has:
>>
>>	extern __const char *__const sys_errlist[];

>.. Read the handbook (section about porting software to FreeBSD).

What "handbook" are you referring to ?  I read the Porting documentation
in the Top distribution - nothing there about changes like below.

Top recognizes FreeBSD V2, which implies to me that there shouldn't
be these kinds of errors - oh well.

>.. Remove line 326 in your utils.c.  It's useless, and it's wrong.

I'll give the above a try - thanks.