Bug#253958: Unable to build packages depending on this with gcc.

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 12.06.04 carbonated beverage (ramune@net-ronin.org) wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 03:41:12PM +0200, Hilmar Preusse wrote:

Hi,

> > That means, you're trying to write a program using libkpathsea and it
> > doesn't build? Is ^1 a possible minimal example?
> 
> Yup.  Since it wants varargs.h.  A more minimal example:
> 
> ramune@tobacco:ramune: cat a.c
> #include <kpathsea/tex-file.h>
> 
I guess, you've to keep that #include <kpathsea/kpathsea.h> line,
else you'll get:

/usr/local/include/kpathsea/tex-file.h:185: parse error before `*'
/usr/local/include/kpathsea/tex-file.h:185: warning: data definition
has no type or storage class
drachi:[hille] >

Anyway.

> > blame? Karl Berry? Is that behaviour reproducible?
> 
> Yup.
> 
So I'll contact Olaf Weber, cause:

/* tex-file.h: find files in a particular format.

Copyright (C) 1993, 94, 95, 96 Karl Berry.
Copyright 1998, 1999 Olaf Weber.

Thanks,
  Hilmar
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