Return to BSD News archive
Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!saluki-news.it.siu.edu!usenet
From: jimd@dutton4.it.siu.edu (Jim Dutton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: __dead2/__pure2 in stdlib.h causes parse error
Date: 14 Mar 1997 16:53:12 GMT
Organization: Southern Illinois University - Carbondale
Lines: 17
Message-ID: <5gbvpo$57i@saluki-news.it.siu.edu>
References: <5g7bkp$3fe@saluki-news.it.siu.edu>
<5g7li1$ps@uriah.heep.sax.de>
NNTP-Posting-Host: dutton4.it.siu.edu
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8
Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37084
In article <5g7li1$ps@uriah.heep.sax.de>,
j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:
> jimd@dutton4.it.siu.edu (Jim Dutton) wrote:
>
>> Whilst trying to compile db-1.85 (used by Sendmail) under FreeBSD-2.2, I get
>> the following error messages:
>>
>> /usr/include/stdlib.h:83: parse error before `__dead2'
>> /usr/include/stdlib.h:83: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
>> /usr/include/stdlib.h:84: parse error before `__pure2'
>> /usr/include/stdlib.h:84: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
>
> Kill db's private copy of cdef.h.
Ah - yes - NOW I remember. Thanks again Joerg. THIS time, I will print a copy
of the answer, and include it with my hard copy of the FAQ (I didn't find this
question in the FAQ).