Hey everybody,

I am pretty new to Linux and I am sure this problem I am having can be solved easily (I hope!). I am using Suse 10.0 and am trying to install a program called Rainbow. I have the GCC compiler installed etc and have unpacked and configured rainbow. However, when I come to the installation part (make install) I get the following errors:

warning: type qualifiers ignored on function return type
error: array type has incomplete element type

I looked at similiar posts concerning the latter error message, however, the replies aren't related to my problem.

If anybody could offer a solution I would appreciate it!

Thanks!

p.s. would it help if I installed gcc3?

this applicaton has not been updated to comply with the new compiler.
try getting a newer version of the application.

I am using the latest version available: 2002, yet I still have the same problems. I installed an older version of the GCC compiler (3), perhaps I should use an older one still?

point us to that application and perhaps it is easy to fix it.
not sure about gcc2 it's worth a try
2002 was when gcc3 came out i think
the comunity is always a bit behind because of "issues" with the changes in the compilers.

Hey, this is where the application is located: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mccallum/bow/src/. I am using 20020213 (being the latest version of the app, 2002). Perhaps an earlier version of this app may be better, however, since the latest version isn't working with the gcc I am persuming this isn't the solution!

So any further help is greatly appreciated

it could just be that the libary doesnt work

the page above the one you linked has this, could just be that the final release was never finsished. Do you need to use this specific tool or could you find something similar 2002 seems really out of date for any non-server related, well at least to me

Unfortunately I must use this program as part of one of my modules for university (only two small assignments in this program). Therefore I cannot use something similiar I will try one of the other versions and see if this works any better :s

Still the same problem, even with various versions of the application. I have posted a screenshot (see link) of the exact error I am getting (there are no errors when I unpack and configure).

http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/7074/problemgq2.jpg

Perhaps this will better explain my problem

i tried to debug that program
with each bug i swatted down a new one was next and it just kept going on and on and on.

i stopped after about eight concerned about the impact i might be having on a program i didn't understand.

*important*
you can't be expected to compile and run a bunch of invalid crap code and that is what that is !

no one else is going to be able to compile it either.

Well I guess I will just explain that then when I go back into uni on monday! Thanks for trying the application for me =)