[GRASS-user] Compilation error in tonight's CVS

[Glynn Clements]

Tom Russo wrote:

> I just tried building CVS grass after a few weeks of not updating.  I'm 
> on FreeBSD 5.4.
> 
> The error is in lib/gis/error.c, a complaint about an inconsistent definition
> of write_error that doesn't match the prototype in the declaration earlier.
> 
> static int write_error (const char *, const int, const char *, 
>                         const int, const char *);
> 
> and later:
> static int write_error (const char *msg, const int fatal,
>                         const char *dir, const time_t clock,
>                         const char *cwd)
> {
> 
> In the definition clock is const time_t, in the declaration it's const int.
> Apparently on FreeBSD they're not equivalent and the compiler chokes building
> libgrass_gis.  For whatever reason, this does *not* cause the entire make to
> stop dead in its tracks --- it continues to try to build everything else,
> and everything else fails to link because libgrass_gis can't be found. 
> 
> Changing the declaration to have "const time_t" to match the definition
> fixes the problem.

Fixed in CVS.

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Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>