Bug 19588

Summary: gtk-- will not compile under Redhat 7.0
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Need Real Name <sprather>
Component: gtk+Assignee: Havoc Pennington <hp>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Dale Lovelace <dale>
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Description Need Real Name 2000-10-23 07:32:26 UTC 
There is already a bug reported on this at www.sourceforge.org, but the
developers declared it a Redhat bug.  The getenv prototype in stdlib.h
conflicts with a declaration in one of the gtk-- source files (parser.yy). 
There is a hack mentioned in the bug at sourceforge that gets the
compilation to complete, but there's no guarentee that the hack produces
valid code.

http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=115781&group_id=1161

The actual text of the compile error can be found at the above link.
Comment 1 Owen Taylor 2000-10-23 15:16:16 UTC 
This is a plain-and-simple gtk-- bug. getenv() is defined to be declared
in stdlib.h:

 http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/getenv.html

And prototype in parser.yy is just wrong - extern "C" only affects
mangling and does not give the C interpretation of () - see 
Stroustrup's "The C++ Programming Language", section 9.2.4.
Comment 2 Need Real Name 2000-10-24 06:10:29 UTC 
I suspected it was their bug, but apparently it compiles ok on Redhat6.2.  I 
guess they'll have to own up to it eventually (when one of the developers 
installs Redhat7.0).