Re: Compile error while building postgresql 10.3

On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 9:28 AM, Terry Phelps <tgphelps50(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Thank you for your help. That resolved the problem. My bad.
>
> The build ran much further and then got another error, which I'll mention
> here, and go research it, since it could be just my bleeding edge source
> code.
>
> cc -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Wdeclaration-after-statement
> -Wendif-labels -Wmissing-format-attribute -Wformat-security
> -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv -Wno-unused-command-line-argument
> -I/usr/local/include -D_THREAD_SAFE -pthread -D_REENTRANT -D_THREAD_SAFE
> -D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS -fPIC -DPIC -I../include
> -I../../../../src/interfaces/ecpg/include -DFRONTEND
> -I../../../../src/include -DSO_MAJOR_VERSION=3 -c -o datetime.o
> datetime.c
> datetime.c:332:1: error: conflicting types for 'PGTYPESdate_defmt_asc'
> PGTYPESdate_defmt_asc(date * d, const char *fmt, const char *str)
> ^
> /usr/local/include/pgtypes_date.h:24:12: note: previous declaration is here
> extern int PGTYPESdate_defmt_asc(date *, const char *, char *);

That header is coming from /usr/local/include instead of your
development tree, from an older version of PG from before const was
added there.

BTW it looks like 0e1539ba0d0a added const qualifiers to that function
but didn't update the documentation in doc/src/sgml/ecpg.sgml.

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Thomas Munro
http://www.enterprisedb.com