freebsd stable - Mar 2006 - [SOLVED] cnet compile problem

Hello Brett,

> >        I am currently studying a Data communications and networking 
> > subject at Monash University. I am using cnet at home for the labs on
my
> > FreeBSD notebook as we are using William Stallings' textbook.
There
> > seems to be a problem with the cnet source code. I have emailed the 
> > FreeBSD cnet maintainer and they suggested emailing you. Basically the
> > problem is as follows;
>   

All of these errors are "the same" and stem from the fact that your
version of cnet, v2.0.9 I think, was built before the latest versions of
gcc (in FreeBSD and Fedora, among others) became more aggressive about
parameter type checking.

Two simple changes are necessary:

In the cnet header file, cnet.h, change to:

    extern void CNET_exit(const char *filenm, const char *function, int lineno);

and in src/exit.c change to:

    void CNET_exit(const char *filenm, const char *function, int lineno)
    {
	....
    }

I've made these and a few other (overdue) changes in the distribution,
now v2.0.10,  available from from:

	http://www.csse.uwa.edu.au/cnet/index.html

Please feel free to distribute this email as widely as you need.
Comments and more bug reports welcome.

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On Wed, 08 Mar 2006 13:12:15 +1100
"B .Wiggins" <synack@netspace.net.au> wrote:
> Hello Brett,
> 
> 
> > >        I am currently studying a Data communications and
networking
> > > subject at Monash University. I am using cnet at home for the
labs on my
> > > FreeBSD notebook as we are using William Stallings' textbook.
There
> > > seems to be a problem with the cnet source code. I have emailed
the
> > > FreeBSD cnet maintainer and they suggested emailing you.
Basically the
> > > problem is as follows;
> >   
> 
> 
> All of these errors are "the same" and stem from the fact that
your
> version of cnet, v2.0.9 I think, was built before the latest versions of
> gcc (in FreeBSD and Fedora, among others) became more aggressive about
> parameter type checking.
Heh, so I was right.
I will update the port.

Thanks,

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