emacs 21.2 failed to compile

[Peter van Hoof]

When I tried to install emacs 21.2 on my Sun Blade 100 station running Solaris 
2.8, I encountered the following problem:

configure --prefix=/opt/local
gmake

.....

gmake[2]: Entering directory `/opt/temp/emacs-21.2/lwlib'
gcc -c -DUSE_LUCID   -I/usr/openwin/include -I/usr/dt/include 
-I/opt/sfw/include -I/opt/local/include -I/usr/X/include -g -O2 
-DEMACS_BITMAP_FILES -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -Demacs -I. -I../src 
-I/opt/temp/emacs-21.2/lwlib -I/opt/temp/emacs-21.2/lwlib/../src 
/opt/temp/emacs-21.2/lwlib/lwlib.c
gcc -c   -I/usr/openwin/include -I/usr/dt/include  -I/opt/sfw/include 
-I/opt/local/include -I/usr/X/include -g -O2 -DEMACS_BITMAP_FILES 
-DHAVE_CONFIG_H -Demacs -I. -I../src -I/opt/temp/emacs-21.2/lwlib 
-I/opt/temp/emacs-21.2/lwlib/../src lwlib-Xlw.c
gcc -c   -I/usr/openwin/include -I/usr/dt/include  -I/opt/sfw/include 
-I/opt/local/include -I/usr/X/include -g -O2 -DEMACS_BITMAP_FILES 
-DHAVE_CONFIG_H -Demacs -I. -I../src -I/opt/temp/emacs-21.2/lwlib 
-I/opt/temp/emacs-21.2/lwlib/../src xlwmenu.c
In file included from /usr/openwin/include/X11/Xos.h:81,
                 from xlwmenu.c:32:
/usr/include/strings.h:25: conflicting types for `memmove'
/usr/include/iso/string_iso.h:62: previous declaration of `memmove'
/usr/include/strings.h:26: parse error before numeric constant
gmake[2]: *** [xlwmenu.o] Error 1
gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/opt/temp/emacs-21.2/lwlib'
gmake[1]: *** [really-lwlib] Error 2
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/temp/emacs-21.2/src'
gmake: *** [src] Error 2

The preprocessed file xlwmenu.i.bz2 is attached. It appears that bcopy is 
#define'd to memmove before the prototype of bcopy is read from 
/usr/include/strings.h. This leads to the conflicting types error.

Peter van Hoof.

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Peter van Hoof
APS Division - Physics Department
Queen's University Belfast
Belfast, BT7 1NN
Northern Ireland
Home Page: http://star.pst.qub.ac.uk/~pvh

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