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On some flavours of linux errno is a macro rather than an int so you need to alter the error.h file for it to compile

You need to do the following….

mv error.h error.h.orig

sed -e ‘s/extern int errno;/#include /g’ error.h.orig > error.h

Jason Friedland on July 26, 2005 at 04:56 said:

Thank you!

Jason

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Eduardo on November 1, 2005 at 13:09 said:

Bulls-eye ! Thanks !

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Jesse on December 22, 2005 at 17:10 said:

Thank you… I never would have figured that one out.

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Octavio on December 28, 2005 at 19:15 said:

Muchas gracias!

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Thomas Failor on March 26, 2006 at 19:07 said:

All I can say is thanks and thank God Google found your blog.

Regards,

Thomas Failor
Houston, Texas

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Axel Sauerhöfer on November 7, 2007 at 19:38 said:

Hey man,

you saved my day, i updated some debian packages from sarge to etch. Than my pop3 server doesn’t work anymore. I tried to recompile, but this failed with the error message above.

Thanks man

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Ross Cooney on June 2, 2008 at 10:08 said:

Thanks for the tip…worked a treat.

Ross

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Don on June 10, 2008 at 06:00 said:

Pure gold! Thanks.

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Karl on April 28, 2009 at 15:04 said:

Just thought I would add, ran into the same problem compiling daemontools on RHEL 4. This worked perfect.

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