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Bug#238666: Bug#238629: kali: FTBFS: Redeclaration of wchar_t



tag 238666 + help upstream
thanks

On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 12:41:07PM -0800, Daniel Schepler wrote:
> 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.

I'd appreciate some assistance with this bug, as I'd be loath to mess
around with a fundamental (for X) header file in the first place, let
alone when we're trying to do a freeze.

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