Thanks to Jon and Paul for putting me straight on this. I put the missing declaration (extern int optind) into amanda.h, and everything compiles now. (Sorry for the delay in replying but I had a few days off, not too far from Paul, in Ghent)
Julian --- Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 07:06:00PM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: > Jon LaBadie wrote: > > >On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 06:28:07PM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: > >>Do "man 3 getopt" to get the page for the C library routines. > >> > ... > >>What I do not know exactly is why gcc doesn't complain on other > >>OSes about the missing declaration. (in amanda.h I find the > >>definition for getopt and optarg, but not for optind; actually > >>you better add the definition there.) > >> ...snip... > > > >It indicates that optind and the others are defined in <unistd.h>. > >So possibly that should be included in your source somewhere (amanda.h?). > > Yes, that indeed why on modern OSes gcc does not complain anymore. > I have only SunOS 4.1.4 in my Jurassic (S)Parc , and there is no > definition related to getopt in stdlib.h from SunOS 4.1.4 > > Both ammt.c and amdd.c have explicitly defined optind. "tapetype.c" > was only an extra program before it became promoted to amtapetype. > That's probably why it was never tested that much on different OSes. Good to see the clarifications, thanks. I guess Julian was the first to build on SunOS since the promotion :) -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax) _____________________________________________________________ Get Paid to Surf the Web! http://www.alladvantage.com/home.asp?refid=AVZ855
