Re: Error while compiling; was Segfault after bad value for meta-prefix-char

["Jan D." <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>]

> On 2005-01-20, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:
>>  Does this patch fix the problem?
>
> Before trying the patch, I thought I should do cvs update, since I
> hadn't done it in quite a while, and now I get an error while
> compiling Emacs:
>
> gtkutil.c: In function `xg_get_file_name':
> gtkutil.c:1324: parse error before `extern'
> gtkutil.c:1326: `x_use_old_gtk_file_dialog' undeclared (first use in
> this function)
> gtkutil.c:1326: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> gtkutil.c:1326: for each function it appears in.)
> gtkutil.c: In function `xg_tool_bar_detach_callback':
> gtkutil.c:3164: parse error before `int'
> make[1]: *** [gtkutil.o] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/emacs/src'
> make: *** [bootstrap-build] Error 2
>
> I tried a clean CVS checkout and ./configure --with-x-toolkit=gtk,
> make bootstrap, with the same result.

You are probably using a non-ANSI (1999) C compiler. I've fixed those 
places
so they compile for old compilers also.

	Jan D.