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Re: libc6 header problems



On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 09:42:01AM -0500, Chris Gray wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 01:43:46AM -0600, Pat Mahoney wrote:
> > In reply to myself (thanks to those who replied):
> > > /usr/include/string.h:37: parse error before `?'
> > > /usr/include/string.h:55: parse error before `?'
> > 
> > A parse error seems like it should be an easy fix...too bad I'm
> > incompetent.  But why is this happening at all?  Obviously it is just
> > me or at least not most people (searching the mail archives turns up
> > nothing).
> 
> This time, try this command line and tell me if it works to compile
> xmms.  You have to do it to all the Makefiles in xmms.
> 
> $ cp Makefile Makefile.bak; cat Makefile.bak | sed -e s%-I/usr/include%%g - > Makefile

Hm... I can't get this to work, probably some ascii corruption in the
email.  I assume this is the same though:

$ ... | sed 's/\-I\/usr\/include\///' > Makefile

> 
> After you have gotten all the makefiles, then try to compile it.  If
> this works, 

Nope :(

> then you have an extraneous file in /usr/include that you
> need to get rid of.

Can't recall ever messing around in there...

> 
> Good luck,
> Chris
> 
> -- 
> The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe
> is that it hasn't tried to contact us.
> 		-- Bill Watterson
> 

-- 
Pat Mahoney	<patmahoney@gmx.net>

But maybe good is more than the absence of bad.
                -- Hobbes in "Calvin and Hobbes" by Bill Watterson



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