Thanks for the tip, John.

My getopt man page states that getopts is preferred, so I have modified the 
source to use getopts instead.
I am re-running make but, as you may have guessed, my sun workstation is a 
little s-l-o-w!
...I'll report back when its finished.

Julian


--- Jon LaBadie <jon AT jgcomp DOT com> wrote:
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 03:54:00PM +0100, Stevens, Julian C wrote:
> 
> I've been trying to compile Amanda 2.4.4p1 on SunOs 4.1.3 using gcc 2.8.1
> The configure seems fine, but when I try to make it I get:
> 
> tapetype.c
> tapetype.c: In function 'main':
> tapetype.c:369: 'optind' undeclared (first use in this function)
> tapetype.c:369: (each undeclared identifier is reportes only once
> tapetype.c:369: for each function it appears in.)
> *** Error code 1
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target 'tapetype.o'
> 
> Please can anyone suggest what the problem might be?

"optind" is commonly used as a variable name in a program or
library called getopt(s).

There are several versions of this library available on my Solaris
system and I strongly suspect that they have changed since SunOS 4.x.

See if your system has other "getopt", "getopts" (maybe with a cap G).
If so, try to point your source files to pick those libraries and
header files rather than the ones it currently uses.

-- 
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