Re: [Sbcl-devel] Compiling 1.0.6 - backtrace.c:579: error: conflicting types for 'backtrace'

[Joubert N. <jo...@jo...>]

Hi Juho,

On Sat, 2007-06-23 at 06:41 +0300, Juho Snellman wrote:
> Joubert Nel <jo...@jo...> writes:
> > backtrace.c:579: error: conflicting types for 'backtrace'
> > /usr/include/execinfo.h:41: error: previous declaration of 'backtrace'
> > was here
> 
> Looks like there's a system function with the same name as an sbcl
> runtime function. You could try renaming the backtrace() function in 
> the sbcl source to something else, for example:
> 
>   perl -i -pe 's{backtrace(?=\()}{sb_backtrace}ge' src/runtime/*.[ch]
> 

thanks for the response.

This renaming allows the compile to finish, however, I'm curious as to
why this isn't also a problem on Linux builds, since this is a function
in the GNU C Library - see
http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_mono/libc.html#Backtraces

Joubert