Build bug in nmh-1.0?

[Lars Kellogg-Stedman]

Howdy,

I'm trying to build nmh-1.0 under RedHat 5.2/Sparc (egcs-1.1b,
glibc-2.0.7).

I'm encountering the following error at compile time:

  gcc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.. -I. -I.. -O2 discard.c
  discard.c: In function `discard':
  discard.c:60: structure has no member named `_ptr'
  discard.c:60: structure has no member named `_base'
  discard.c:61: structure has no member named `_cnt'
  make[1]: *** [discard.o] Error 1

That section of the code looks something like this:

  # ifdef LINUX_STDIO
    io->_IO_write_ptr = io->_IO_write_base;
  # else
    if ((io->_ptr = io->_base))
      io->_cnt = 0;
  # endif

The errors goes away if one degines LINUX_STDIO in config.h.  Is this
something that could be detected by the configure script?  Or better yet,
is it *really* necessary to directly access members of the FILE structure?

Thanks,

  -- Lars

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Lars Kellogg-Stedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>