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Re: Bug#238629: kali: FTBFS: Redeclaration of wchar_t



reassign 238666 x-dev
thanks

Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> writes:

> This is SO WRONG ... Xosdefs.h thinks that the presence of a definition
> of SX means that it's running on some strange non-POSIX PC Unix clone or
> other, and goes into crazy mode. If I rename SX to something else, it's
> fine.
>
> I'll apply a workaround to kali, but this is hideous namespace pollution
> on the part of Xosdefs.h. Can we just ditch most of that file in Debian?
> The __GNU__ bit at the end is the only part that seems possibly
> relevant.

It also appears that defining SYSV does the same thing (see bug
#238628).  That definitely seems wrong, since SYSV does (sort of)
apply to GNU/Linux systems.
-- 
Daniel Schepler              "Please don't disillusion me.  I
schepler@math.berkeley.edu    haven't had breakfast yet."
                                 -- Orson Scott Card



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