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From: scott@bu-ma.bu.edu (Scott Sutherland)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: PATCH patch 10 problem
Message-ID: <880618224345@bu-ma>
Date: 19 Jun 88 02:43:45 GMT
References: <565@bnlux0.bnl.gov>
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In-reply-to: abrams@bnlux0.bnl.gov's message of 17 Jun 88 14:01:38 GMT

In article <565@bnlux0.bnl.gov> abrams@bnlux0.bnl.gov (Karl L. Abrams) writes:

> We have been using PATCH here at BNL for quite a while with great
> success.  Today, I attempted to apply patch #10 and failed.  Our
> system is Ultrix2.0 running on a VAX 11/780. After unsharing the patch
> and running Config, 'make' barfed.
> 
>    #<8> make
>    cc -c -O  patch.c
>    "./common.h", line 154: redeclaration of sprintf
>    "patch.c", line 291: warning: illegal combination of pointer and integer, op =
>    *** Error code 1
> 
>    Stop.

I had the same trouble, until I noticed that I had an old config.h
lying around.  Config doesn't rebuild it from config.h.SH (since its
not in the MANIFEST file) if there is already one there.  Try removing
the old one, then Config, then make.  It worked for me.


	Scott Sutherland			
	scott@bu-ma.bu.edu
	Boston University Math Department