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Re: Irix build failes (PSQL 7.1.1)

Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu> — 2001-05-12T04:01:09Z

> > I'm unable to build on Irix (6.5.9) using the MipsPro compiler (Vs 7.3). The output is this:
> > cc-1092 cc: ERROR File = ../../../../src/include/utils/nabstime.h, Line = 157
> >   Identifier-list parameters can only be used in a function definition.
> >   extern Datum timeofday(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS);
> Very strange ... especially considering that that include file has
> dozens of nearly identical extern declarations.  Why does it choke on
> only this one?
> Does your compiler documentation explain this error message more fully?
> I'm not at all sure what it means by "Identifier-list parameters".

I'll bet a nickel that it is a name conflict with something else called
"timeofday".

                    - Thomas