In file included from conffile.c:42:
  diskfile.h:49: error: conflicting types for `host_t'
  /usr/include/mach/mach_types.h:103: error: previous declaration of
  `host_t'

Probably host_t should be changed to am_host_t or some such.

(Bad MACOS for polluting the user namespace, but of course all oses do
this.)

I had a similar issue with shquote, which was in NetBSD's libc.

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        Greg Troxel <gdt AT ir.bbn DOT com>