Cannot build emacs with X under Solaris 8 and 9

Cannot build emacs with X under Solaris 8 and 9

[Jonathan Eckstein]

Hi --

I have tried to build emacs versions 20.7 through 21.2 on several 
different Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 systems.  The builds always fail with 
error messages like:

gcc -c   -I/usr/openwin/include -I/usr/dt/include   -g -O2 
-DEMACS_BITMAP_FILES -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -Demacs -I. -I../src 
-I/home/jeckstei/emacs-build/emacs-21.2/lwlib 
-I/home/jeckstei/emacs-build/emacs-21.2/lwlib/../src xlwmenu.c
In file included from /usr/openwin/include/X11/Xos.h:81,
                  from xlwmenu.c:32:
/usr/include/strings.h:25: conflicting types for `memmove'
/usr/include/iso/string_iso.h:62: previous declaration of `memmove'
/usr/include/strings.h:26: parse error before numeric constant
make[2]: *** [xlwmenu.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/jeckstei/emacs-build/emacs-21.2/lwlib'
make[1]: *** [really-lwlib] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jeckstei/emacs-build/emacs-21.2/src'
make: *** [src] Error 2

The sequence leading to this was "configure --prefix=<some dir>; make".

I think there is a work-around of disabling X, but that seems quite 
drastic.  Any advice or better work-arounds?

   Thanks,

     Jonathan


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Re: Cannot build emacs with X under Solaris 8 and 9

[Andreas Schwab]

Jonathan Eckstein <jeckstei@rutcor.rutgers.edu> writes:

> Hi --
>
> I have tried to build emacs versions 20.7 through 21.2 on several
> different Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 systems.  The builds always fail with
> error messages like:
[...]
> I think there is a work-around of disabling X, but that seems quite
> drastic.  Any advice or better work-arounds?

Please try again with emacs 21.3.  Emacs 21.2 is already more than one and
a half years old.

Andreas.

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