Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!gvlf3.gvl.unisys.com!lgnp1!phil From: phil@ls.com (Phil Eschallier) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco Subject: Re: C-News ? Message-ID: <5079@lgnp1.ls.com> Date: 30 Apr 91 22:33:21 GMT References: <41@hlthnt.UUCP> <1991Apr30.101218.10473@robobar.co.uk> Organization: Lagniappe Systems [Doylestown, PA] Lines: 21 In article <1991Apr30.101218.10473@robobar.co.uk> ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo) writes: >sginn@hlthnt.UUCP (Steve Ginn) writes: >SCO broke string.h by #define'ing strerror in /usr/include/string.h >You can't do it like that. > >To fix: edit /usr/include/string.h and delete the line which says >#define strerror(error) /* whatever */ >up until the end of the definition. > not necessary -- the only change needed is to delete the trailing semi-colon on the define ... this will fix your problem while still using sco conventions ... phil -- Phil Eschallier | E-Mail to: US Mail to: | INET: phil@ls.com 248B Union Street Lagniappe Systems | UUCP: ...!uunet!lgnp1!phil Doylestown, PA 18901 Computer Services | CIS: 71076,1576 VOICE: +1 215 348 9721