PATCH patch 10 problem

[Scott Sutherland]

In article <565 at bnlux0.bnl.gov> abrams at bnlux0.bnl.gov (Karl L. Abrams) writes:

> We have been using PATCH here at BNL for quite a while with great
> success.  Today, I attempted to apply patch #10 and failed.  Our
> system is Ultrix2.0 running on a VAX 11/780. After unsharing the patch
> and running Config, 'make' barfed.
> 
>    #<8> make
>    cc -c -O  patch.c
>    "./common.h", line 154: redeclaration of sprintf
>    "patch.c", line 291: warning: illegal combination of pointer and integer, op =
>    *** Error code 1
> 
>    Stop.

I had the same trouble, until I noticed that I had an old config.h
lying around.  Config doesn't rebuild it from config.h.SH (since its
not in the MANIFEST file) if there is already one there.  Try removing
the old one, then Config, then make.  It worked for me.


	Scott Sutherland			
	scott at bu-ma.bu.edu
	Boston University Math Department