[Sussex] Unable to compile - elements of array `long_options' have incomplete type

[Matthew Macdonald-Wallace]

Jim,

Jim Nicholson wrote:
> Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
> 
>> I'm having issues compiling Silky (http://silky.sourceforge.net/).
>> Basically, I get the following error when I'm compiling:
>>
>> main.c: In function `main':
>> main.c: 512: error: elements of array `long_options' have incomplete type
>> main.c: 513:warning: excess elements in struct initializer
>> main.c: 513:warning: (near initialization for `long_options[0]')
> 
> 
> You don't say what version of silky you're building or on which 
> distribution.

Oops, My bad, I apologise.  I'm using the same versions of silky and 
silc-toolkit that you are using and I'm running a customised version of 
Damn Small Linux (Its based on debian).

> I've downloaded silky-0.5.4 and silc-toolkit-0.9.12 source tarballs onto 
> my Mandriva 2005 LE x86 box.
> 
> In silc-toolkit-0.9.12 I did the usual
> 
>     ./configure
>     make
>     sudo make install
> 
> which put the files in /usr/local/silc
> 
> In silky-0.5.4 I did
> 
>     ./configure
> 
> which complained it could not find the silc.pc
> 
> did a
>     find /usr -name silc.pic
> and
>     find ~/build_area/silc-toolkit-0.9.12 -name silc.pic
> 
> but got no results, so I checked the silky website and did
> 
>     ./configure --with-silc-libs=/usr/local/silc/lib 
> --with-silc-include=/usr/local/silc/include
>     make
> 
> this aborted with unresolved references when linking, but it did compile 
> main.c, you're offending lines are:
> 
>   static struct option long_options[] = {
>     {"debug", 0, 0, 0},
>     {"debug-level", 1, 0, 0},
>     {0, 0, 0, 0}
>   };
> 
> (BTW If you had posted these lines I would not have had to go through 
> the rigmarole above)

My Bad, I should have done this. :(

> The error you are getting is because the compiler cannot find a 
> definition for "struct option". A quick grep in the silky src directory 
> found nothing, but grepping in /usr/local/silc/include turns it up in 
> getopt.h
> 
> So, either
> 
> 1) you didn't install silc correctly
> 2) you have a silc.pc which is wrong (assuming that it is some kind of 
> script defining the paths to things)
> 3) you passed the wrong path to configure
> 4) you had errors from configure but tried to compile anyway.

OK, thanks, I'll try these out.

Cheers,

Matt