[Caml-list] problem compiling libunix on Linux

[Caml-list] problem compiling libunix on Linux

[wang yin]

Hi,

I'm trying to compile libunix in contrib directory for my
Linux machine, because HOL-light uses libunix.

But it seem that libunix uses BSD style headers. And I get
the following compiler error from GCC:

gcc -I../../src/runtime -O    -c -o accept.o accept.c
In file included from /usr/include/sys/un.h:38,
                 from socketaddr.h:4,
                 from accept.c:8:
/usr/include/string.h:257: parse error before '(' token
/usr/include/string.h:257: conflicting types for `memmove'
/usr/include/string.h:43: previous declaration of `memmove'
/usr/include/string.h:257: parse error before "const"
make: *** [accept.o] Error 1

Stracing into string.h, I found that problem emerges from
the BSD prototype:

#ifdef __USE_BSD
/* Copy N bytes of SRC to DEST (like memmove, but args
reversed).  */
extern void bcopy (__const void *__src, void *__dest, size_t
__n) __THROW;

....

Why is __USE_BSD defined? I can't find it anywhere in my
distribution. How can I solve this problem? HOL Light can be
used without libunix, but it requires libnum, and libnum
depends on libunix. And many other contrib libraries depends
on it. So I must get libunix compiled!

Can any one give some hints?


-- 
Wang Yin
Deparment of Computer Science and Technology,
Tsinghua University,
100084
Beijing China

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