teTeX fails to compile in BLFS

corbis_demon · 09-11-2009, 03:17 PM

Hi, I'm trying to compile teTeX in BLFS, and I get this error:

Code:

In file included from tangleboot.c:94:
tangleboot.h:34: error: conflicting types for â
/usr/include/stdio.h:651: note: previous declaration of â was here
tangleboot.c:2175: error: conflicting types for â
/usr/include/stdio.h:651: note: previous declaration of â was here
make[2]: *** [tangleboot.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/sources/tetex/tetex-src-3.0/texk/web2c'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/sources/tetex/tetex-src-3.0/texk'
make: *** [all] Error 1

I guess ever since teTeX development stopped, this error has been bugging it's compilation on systems with newer glibc. I just wanna know if there's a fix available for this. I know future BLFS builds are gonna switch to TeXLive, but I really don't want to install such a huge package on my system. Please advise.

potuz · 10-15-2009, 02:04 PM

I'm confused by the character \^a in your post. What is there in your stdio.h:651? is it getline? If so, I'd recommend to change getline for get_line in tangleboot.

I'd be surprised if that didn't work, but otherwise you could see what happens if you comment out the offending line in stdio.h and recompile?

Finally, I'm not sure why you say that texlive is huge, you can choose to have as few packages as you want.

R.

corbis_demon · 10-22-2009, 11:41 AM

Hi,
Thanks for the reply. I'm sorry, those weird characters were the result of an incorrectly installed utf-8 locale. Corrected that and this is what the actual error looked like:

Code:

In file included from tangleboot.c:94:
tangleboot.h:34: error: conflicting types for 'getline'
/usr/include/stdio.h:651: note: previous declaration of 'getline' was here
tangleboot.c:2175: error: conflicting types for 'getline'
/usr/include/stdio.h:651: note: previous declaration of 'getline' was here
make[2]: *** [tangleboot.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/sources/tetex-src-3.0/texk/web2c'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/sources/tetex-src-3.0/texk'
make: *** [all] Error 1

As you said, it was getline. And I found a fix here http://www.mail-archive.com/blfs-dev.../msg09506.html
Compiles perfectly now. Thanks a lot.