Re: Conflict type in guile-1.4/libguile/net_db.c

[Martin Grabmueller]

> From: na li <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 01:27:51 -0700 (PDT)
> 
> Hi, When I tried to compile guile-1.4, I got the following error,
> 
> gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -I.. -I./.. -g -O2 -Wall -Wpointer-arith
>        -Wmissing-prototypes -c  -fPIC -DPIC net_db.c -o .libs/net_db.lo
>        net_db.c:78: conflicting types for `inet_aton'
>        /usr/include/arpa/inet.h:74: previous declaration of `inet_aton'
>        make[1]: *** [net_db.lo] Error 1
>        make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/guile-1.3.4/libguile'
>        make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> 
> It turned out that inet_aton() was declared as "in_addr_t" in
> /usr/include/arpa/inet.h and "typedef uint32_t in_addr_t;" in
> "/usr/include/netinet/in.h".
> 
> But in net_db.c, it was declared as "extern int inet_aton();".

I suppose you're using Red Hat 7.x.  This is a known problem and fixed
in CVS Guile.

> I commented out that line and it compiled ok.

That's the correct workaround.

Regards,
  'martin