John E. Malmberg wrote: > In src/names.c > > The declarations for getgrnam and getpwnam interfere with the ones in > the system supplied headers.
> --- /src_root/tar-1.19/src/names.c Sun Aug 12 02:46:25 2007 > +++ src/names.c Mon Dec 17 19:53:01 2007 > @@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ > > /* User and group names. */ > > +#ifndef __VMS /* These conflict with the VMS system supplied headers */ > struct group *getgrnam (); > struct passwd *getpwnam (); > #if ! HAVE_DECL_GETPWUID > @@ -35,6 +36,7 @@ > #if ! HAVE_DECL_GETGRGID > struct group *getgrgid (); > #endif > +#endif > > /* Make sure you link with the proper libraries if you are running the > Yellow Peril (thanks for the good laugh, Ian J.!), or, euh... NIS. Can you please show the relevant part of the system-supplied headers (i.e. the declarations of these functions and of their argument and return types? Bruno
