Re: [Bug-tar] tar 1.15.1 doesn't compile on sunos 4.1.4

[Joerg Schilling]

jason andrade <address@hidden> wrote:

> i'm unable to get tar 1.15.1 to compile on sunos 4.1.4.  i'm happy to
> make an account available to anyone who wants to debug/test on this
> platform and on irix 5.3 as well.

> the error message is:
>
> then mv -f ".deps/gettime.Tpo" ".deps/gettime.Po"; else rm -f 
> ".deps/gettime.Tpo"; exit 1; fi
> if gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DLIBDIR=\"/opt/local/stow/tar-1.15.1/lib\" -I. -I. 
> -I..     -g -O2 -MT hash.o -MD -MP -MF ".deps/hash.Tpo" -c -o hash.o hash.c; \
> then mv -f ".deps/hash.Tpo" ".deps/hash.Po"; else rm -f ".deps/hash.Tpo"; 
> exit 1; fi
> In file included from hash.c:31:
> hash.h:30: parse error before '*' token
> hash.h:30: parse error before "size_t"
> hash.h:30: `size_t' declared as function returning a function

Looks like a side effect from not including sys/types.h.....

If you a re looking for a portable and "rich of features" tar implementation,
you should look at star

ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/star/alpha/

Jörg

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