From: "Kaveh R."  <ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu!>
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 11:51:27 -0500 (EST)
To: arnold@skeeve.atl.ga.us
Subject: Re:  new (and I sure hope final) test release of 3.0.1

	Gawk built everywhere except on irix-4.0.5:

cc -c  -DGAWK -I. -I.. -DHAVE_CONFIG_H ../array.c
accom: Error: ../protos.h, line 73: One declaration for is non-prototype style,)
       extern int fprintf () ; 
       ----------------------^
accom: Error: ../protos.h, line 73: One declaration for fprintf is non-prototyp)
       extern int fprintf () ; 
       ----------------------^
accom: Error: ../protos.h, line 78: redeclaration of fwrite
       extern int fwrite();
       -------------------^
accom: Error: ../protos.h, line 91: One declaration for is non-prototype style,)
       extern int sscanf () ;
       ---------------------^
accom: Error: ../protos.h, line 91: One declaration for sscanf is non-prototype)
       extern int sscanf () ;
       ---------------------^
accom: Error: ../protos.h, line 126: One declaration for is non-prototype style)
       extern int        sprintf () ;
       -----------------------------^
accom: Error: ../protos.h, line 126: One declaration for sprintf is non-prototy)
       extern int        sprintf () ;
       -----------------------------^
accom: Error: /usr/include/unistd.h, line 96: One declaration for is non-protot)
       extern int       execl(  char *,   char *, ...);
       -----------------------------------------------^
accom: Error: /usr/include/unistd.h, line 96: One declaration for execl is non-)
       extern int       execl(  char *,   char *, ...);
       -----------------------------------------------^
make: *** [array.o] Error 1


	The compiler on irix-4.0.5 understands and uses prototypes in
its headers, but does not define __STDC__.  Since gawk's source code
prototypes various systems calls and libc functions, without function
arguments since __STDC__ is not defined, you get these problems.

	I was able to get around it by setting CFLAGS to "-D__STDC__=1".
Then gawk's source code prototyped functions with arguments, and the above
errors did not occur.  I wonder why gawk is prototyping system functions.

	Anyway, after using the CFLAGS hack (only necessary on irix-4.0.5)
all systems built and passed "make check".

		--Kaveh
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Kaveh R. Ghazi				Systems Engineer / Project Leader
ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu			ICon CMT Corp.