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Minor problem in compiling Postgres 6.5.2

Marc-Oliver Westerburg <marc.westerburg@post.rwth-aachen.de> — 1999-10-07T02:15:09Z

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Your name		:Marc-Oliver Westerburg	
Your email address	:marc.westerburg@post.rwth-aachen.de	


System Configuration
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  Architecture (example: Intel Pentium)  	:Intel Pentium 233 MMX

  Operating System (example: Linux 2.0.26 ELF) 	:SuSE Linux 6.2 (kernel
2.2.10,
						 libc6, ELF)

  PostgreSQL version (example: PostgreSQL-6.5.2):   PostgreSQL-6.5.2 

  Compiler used (example:  gcc 2.8.0)		:gcc-2.95.1


Please enter a FULL description of your problem:
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When compiling src/backend/libpq/hba.c gcc exits with a 
parse error in line 520 before remote_port.




Please describe a way to repeat the problem.   Please try to provide a
concise reproducible example, if at all possible: 
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just configure and make as described in INSTALL




If you know how this problem might be fixed, list the solution below:
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gcc doesn't like the ushort. I didn't check any header files for a
definition of ushort
but a simple "#define ushort unsigned short" at the beginning of the
file (src/backend/libpq/hba.c) 
seems to solve the problem.