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Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Errors during compile on AIX 5.1.0.0

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From: Michael Felt <mamfelt@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 09:58:29 +0100
Guy Harris wrote:

> > In packet-nfs.c, line 389 ff
> >
> > the structure variable fh_len is not acceptable to vac.C.
>
> What's the error it reports?

> "packet-nfs.c", line 389.13: 1506-277 (S) Syntax error: possible
> missing ';' or ','?
> "packet-nfs.c", line 389.13: 1506-046 (S) Syntax error.
> "packet-nfs.c", line 401.13: 1506-277 (S) Syntax error: possible
> missing ';' or ','?
> "packet-nfs.c", line 401.13: 1506-046 (S) Syntax error.
> "packet-nfs.c", line 422.21: 1506-021 (S) Expecting struct or union.
> "packet-nfs.c", line 422.35: 1506-021 (S) Expecting struct or union.
> "packet-nfs.c", line 423.49: 1506-021 (S) Expecting struct or union.
> "packet-nfs.c", line 433.22: 1506-021 (S) Expecting struct or union.
> "packet-nfs.c", line 476.20: 1506-021 (S) Expecting struct or union.
> "packet-nfs.c", line 554.12: 1506-021 (S) Expecting struct or union.
> "packet-nfs.c", line 601.66: 1506-277 (S) Syntax error: possible
> missing ')' or ','?
> "packet-nfs.c", line 619.26: 1506-021 (S) Expecting struct or union.
> "packet-nfs.c", line 620.53: 1506-021 (S) Expecting struct or union.
> "packet-nfs.c", line 620.62: 1506-021 (S) Expecting struct or union.
> "packet-nfs.c", line 621.12: 1506-021 (S) Expecting struct or union.
> "packet-nfs.c", line 621.21: 1506-021 (S) Expecting struct or union.
> "packet-nfs.c", line 625.12: 1506-021 (S) Expecting struct or union.

etc.

And I think I found the reason:
grep fh_len /usr/include/*/*.h returns the following:

/usr/include/nfs/nfs.h:#undef fh_len
/usr/include/nfs/nfs.h: u_short fh_len;                 /* file number
length */
/usr/include/sys/types.h:#define fh_len fh_fid.fid_len


>
> > Changing all refences to lh_len in the file permits it to compile
> > further (I named it xfh_len).
>
> I checked in a change to change it (and other "fh_len" variables) to
> "fh_length".