Re: [MiNT] ifconfig fixed (please README)

[Martin-Eric Racine <q-funk@pp.fishpool.com>]

> > The only thing now is, I have to figure out a way to recompile 
> > slattach without GCC complaining that _unx2dos is redefined in
> > a different context (it's the only bin of the package which
> > has hard-coded paths).
> 
> Do you get a "doubly defined symbol" error?

Yes, but it's worse than this:  the _unx2dos defined in
support.h has an extra paramater that the function declared in
slattach.c doesn't have and it doesn't know how to handle it.

> Or does slattach actually want to reference that internal function but
> uses a wrong prototype? In that case try to #include <support.h> and
> delete the prototype in your sources.

support.h is already included and required, but its definition
for _unx2dos is completely different from the localy defined one
in slattach.c so I cannot comment the one in slattach.c and use
the one from support.h, nor the other way around.

>From what I can tell, the prototype was altered somewhere along the
line in our libs' include, but it just broke something here.

Since I'm not a C expert, I don't expect to spend a lot of time on
slattach, especially given that pppd and ifconfig are all I need
to establish a connection (chat also, if dialing out) so, unless
somebody patches it, I'm simply not gonna include slattach in NMD.

NOTE:   NMD is meant to be an FHS-compliant, but really small
        distribution that fits on the smallest possible system.

        I don't intend on it being the all-inclusive, everything
        and your grandmother, mamooth that KGMD was, which means
        deprecated parts like rsh and Slattach could be dropped
        and replaced with ssh and pppd instead.

> If this doesn't help, please send me the exact error message from 
> gcc and I will tell you how to fix it.

Or, type "make slatach" and see for yourself.  Given your
experience at this, you should be able to figure out the
answer in 2 minutes. ;-)

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