Thanks to Jon and Paul for putting me straight on this.
I put the missing declaration (extern int optind) into amanda.h, and everything
compiles now.
(Sorry for the delay in replying but I had a few days off, not too far from
Paul, in Ghent)
Julian
--- Jon LaBadie <jon AT jgcomp DOT com> wrote:
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 07:06:00PM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote:
> Jon LaBadie wrote:
>
> >On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 06:28:07PM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote:
> >>Do "man 3 getopt" to get the page for the C library routines.
> >>
> ...
> >>What I do not know exactly is why gcc doesn't complain on other
> >>OSes about the missing declaration. (in amanda.h I find the
> >>definition for getopt and optarg, but not for optind; actually
> >>you better add the definition there.)
> >>
...snip...
> >
> >It indicates that optind and the others are defined in <unistd.h>.
> >So possibly that should be included in your source somewhere (amanda.h?).
>
> Yes, that indeed why on modern OSes gcc does not complain anymore.
> I have only SunOS 4.1.4 in my Jurassic (S)Parc , and there is no
> definition related to getopt in stdlib.h from SunOS 4.1.4
>
> Both ammt.c and amdd.c have explicitly defined optind. "tapetype.c"
> was only an extra program before it became promoted to amtapetype.
> That's probably why it was never tested that much on different OSes.
Good to see the clarifications, thanks.
I guess Julian was the first to build on SunOS since the promotion :)
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