Path: utzoo!dciem!tim
From: tim@dciem.UUCP (Tim Pointing)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: perl patch 18 makes perl uncompilable
Message-ID: <2641@dciem.UUCP>
Date: 11 Feb 88 20:31:05 GMT
Article-I.D.: dciem.2641
Posted: Thu Feb 11 15:31:05 1988
Reply-To: tim@dciem.UUCP (Tim Pointing)
Organization: D.C.I.E.M., Toronto, Canada
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(I may have missed seeing a patch fail but I don't think so...)

After applying patch 18, attempts to compile perl bombed out. The problem
seems to be in perl.h ... in that file "COMPEX" is typedef'ed as a
specific structure. Alas, in search.h, there is an attempt to declare
COMPEX as an instance of a structure.
I got perl to compile by commenting out the typedef in perl.h . Is this
the right thing to do? Did I screw up somewhere or is everybody else
having this trouble too?

Tim Pointing, DCIEM
tim@zorac.arpa, uunet!mnetor!dciem!tim

P.S. If it matters (and I don't think that it should at this stage), this
is on a Sun 3 under SunOS 3.4
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