Re: building 21.2 on sparc-sun-solaris2.7, conflicting types for memmove

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Matthew Wilkins <mcw@cs.ubc.ca>
> Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 13:22:14 -0700
> 
> the error is:
>    gmake[2]: Entering directory 
> `/cs/local/src/gnu/emacs/emacs-21.2/obj-SunOS-5.7-sparc/lwlib'
>    gcc -c   -I/usr/openwin/include  -I/usr/dt/include    -g -O2
>                      -DEMACS_BITMAP_FILES -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -Demacs -I. -I../src
>                      -I/cs/local/src/gnu/emacs/emacs-21.2/lwlib
>                      -I/cs/local/src/gnu/emacs/emacs-21.2/lwlib/../src
>                      /cs/local/src/gnu/emacs/emacs-21.2/lwlib/xlwmenu.c
>    In file included from /usr/openwin/include/X11/Xos.h:81,
>                     from 
> /cs/local/src/gnu/emacs/emacs-21.2/lwlib/xlwmenu.c:32:
>    /usr/include/strings.h:25: conflicting types for `memmove'
>    /usr/include/string.h:44: previous declaration of `memmove'
>    /usr/include/strings.h:26: parse error before `0'
>    /usr/include/strings.h:26: warning: conflicting types for built-in 
> function `memset'
>    gmake[2]: *** [xlwmenu.o] Error 1

This is a known problem, it is fixed for the next release.  Please
try this patch:

Index: src/s/sol2-5.h
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/emacs/src/s/sol2-5.h,v
retrieving revision 1.13
diff -c -r1.13 sol2-5.h
*** src/s/sol2-5.h      22 Nov 2000 10:37:31 -0000      1.13
--- src/s/sol2-5.h      17 Apr 2002 18:00:03 -0000
***************
*** 24,29 ****
--- 24,38 ----
  
  #undef USE_MMAP_FOR_BUFFERS
  
+ #ifdef HAVE_BCOPY
+ #undef bcopy
+ #undef bzero
+ #undef bcmp
+ #ifndef NOT_C_CODE
+ #include <strings.h>
+ #endif
+ #endif
+ 
  #if 0 /* A recent patch in unexelf.c should eliminate the need for this.  */
  /* Don't use the shared libraries for -lXt and -lXaw,
     to work around a linker bug in Solaris 2.5.