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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Glimpse 3.5 won't make
Date: 18 May 1996 22:55:25 GMT
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I wrote:

> I can't remember much troubles in building it.

I've been looking into the port again, and it indeed modifies the
sys_errlist[] declaration.  IMHO, the port got it wrong however:
instead of modifying it, it should simply drop the duplicate
(conflicting) declaration of sys_errlist[].

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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