Problems compiling emacs

Problems compiling emacs

[Saman Desilva]

Hi,
 I am having problems compiling emacs-21.2. Any help is appreciated.
here is my environment
-Saman
OS:SunOS nis 5.9 Generic sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-250
compiling with: Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C 5.3 2001/05/15 (Tried gcc same
problem)
compiled with
Error:
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/emacs-21.2/lwlib'
cc -c    -I/usr/dt/include   -g -O  -DEMACS_BITMAP_FILES -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
-Demacs -I. -I../src -I/usr/local/src/emacs-21.2/lwlib
-I/usr/local/src/emacs-21.2/lwlib/../src xlwmenu.c
"/usr/include/strings.h", line 25: identifier redeclared: memmove
        current : function(pointer to void, pointer to const void,
unsigned int) returning void
        previous: function(pointer to void, pointer to const void,
unsigned int) returning pointer to void :
"/usr/include/iso/string_iso.h", line 62
"/usr/include/strings.h", line 26: syntax error before or at: 0
"/usr/include/strings.h", line 26: warning: undefined or missing type
for: size_t
"/usr/include/strings.h", line 26: identifier redeclared: memset
        current : function() returning void
        previous: function(pointer to void, int, unsigned int) returning
pointer to void : "/usr/include/iso/string_iso.h", line 63
"xlwmenu.c", line 252: cannot recover from previous errors
cc: acomp failed for xlwmenu.c
make[2]: *** [xlwmenu.o] Error 2

Re: Problems compiling emacs

[Richard Stallman]

I installed some changes recently that should fix this.
How about if you go to savannah.gnu.org and get the RC branch
of the Emacs repository, which is what will be released as 21.3,
and see if it works better?