Re: [Vesta-users] release/12.pre13/10

[Kenneth C. S. <ke...@xo...>]

On Mon, August 6, 2007 4:22 pm, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
> Here's what I get when I try to compile it:

> make[1]: Entering directory
> `/gentoo/build/vestakit.release_12.pre13_10/progs/libs/libBasics.a'
> if g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.     -g -O2 -MT Basics.o -MD -MP -MF
> ".deps/Basics.Tpo" -c -o Basics.o Basics.C; \
> then mv -f ".deps/Basics.Tpo" ".deps/Basics.Po"; else rm -f
> ".deps/Basics.Tpo"; exit 1; fi
> Basics.C: In function 'Text Basics::errno_Text(int)':
> Basics.C:34: error: invalid conversion from 'char*' to 'int'

We should probably take any further discussion of this over to the
vesta-devel mailing list, but to briefly explain it looks to me as
though you may be getting a different strerror_r function during
compilation during the build that you got during the autoconf tests.
The line it is complaining about should only be compiled when
strerror_r follows the POSIX spec of returning an integer that's 0
when it succeeds.  However you seem to be getting the non-standard GNU
strerror_r which returns a "char *".

Off the top of my head I don't know why you would get two different
versions of the function in two different compilations.  You'll
probably need to investigate further on the system where you had this
problem.

--Ken