[Mapserver-dev] Errors due to a getline function defined in cgiutil

[Sean Gillies]

Sorry, forgot to add that this only occurs (that we see) when
building the Python MapScript.

Sean

On Feb 2, 2004, at 1:09 PM, Sean Gillies wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Howard Butler sent this to me
>
>> .../../cgiutil.h:37: conflicting types for `getline'
>> /usr/include/bits/stdio.h:103: previous declaration of `getline'
>>
>> Looks like someone chose a bad name for a function or they really 
>> meant to do this.  Either way, if I change the function name in 
>> cgiutil to getline2 or something, everything compiles and links ok.
>>
>> A quick history showed that the file changed as recently as last 
>> friday.  I don't know what was changed though.
>>
>
> I saw this as well (on Linux RH9) and commented out line 37 in
> cgiutil.h with no bad consequences.  I'd enter this as a bug in 
> Bugzilla
> except that it prevents compilation and needs more immediate attention.
>
> cheers,
> Sean
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