Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/06/10/09:24:37
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of getting_out
> Sent: 10 June 2004 13:52
> I'm trying to compile xfce4 under cygwin. It's almost fine
> but I have an error while trying to compile xffm.
> like said before I'm having trouble compiling xffm-4.0.5. The
> error I have is
>
> /include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include
> -DPACKAGE_DATA_DIR=\"/usr/local/sh
> are\" -DPACKAGE_LOCALE_DIR=\"/usr/local/share/locale\" -g -O2
> -MT libxffm_fstab_
> la-fstab.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/libxffm_fstab_la-fstab.Tpo -c
> fstab.c -DPIC -o .l
> ibs/libxffm_fstab_la-fstab.o
> In file included from fstab.c:56:
> /usr/include/mntent.h:29: error: syntax error before '*' token
> /usr/include/mntent.h:30: error: syntax error before '*' token
> /usr/include/mntent.h:31: error: syntax error before '*' token
> /usr/include/mntent.h:32: error: syntax error before '*' token
> fstab.c: In function `is_mounted':
> fstab.c:221: warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type
> fstab.c: In function `open_fstab':
> fstab.c:472: warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type
> fstab.c:501: warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type
> make[2]: *** [libxffm_fstab_la-fstab.lo] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory
> `/usr/local/src/xfce-4.0.5/src/xffm-4.0.5/libs'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/xfce-4.0.5/src/xffm-4.0.5'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
> I've tried search with google with no result.
>
> Can anyone help me pls.
Yep. The problem is on lines 29-32 of mntent.h. When you see "syntax
error before '*'", that's almost always something that's trying to declare a
pointer to a type that hasn't yet been defined. Taking a look at mntent.h,
we see that lines 29-32 are:
dk AT mace /artimi> head -32 /usr/include/mntent.h | tail -4
FILE *setmntent (const char *__filep, const char *__type);
struct mntent *getmntent (FILE *__filep);
int addmntent (FILE *__filep, const struct mntent *__mnt);
int endmntent (FILE *__filep);
So the problem is that when compiling fstab.c, this header has been
included, but the FILE type is unknown. If you edit fstab.c and add
#include <stdio.h> before the line that includes mntent.h, you should get
somewhere.
That doesn't answer the question of why fstab.c doesn't already do so,
which is probably down to a bug in whatever kind of autoconf-or-similar the
software uses. But I've no idea what xfce4 is, so I can't advise on that.
cheers,
DaveK
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