Subj : Re: c include problem
To   : comp.programming
From : Willem
Date : Thu Oct 06 2005 07:37 pm

Uwe wrote:
) Hi,
)
) I've got a problem with the C programming language. I need to include two
) header files which define constants with identical name. 
) This results in a compilation error:
)
) /home/merkosh/src/Smartspace/Development/Infrastructure/sources/sflib/sflib.h:73:
) error: `sf_error' redeclared as different kind of symbol
) /usr/include/sndfile.h:344: error: previous declaration of `sf_error'
)
) How do you handle this in C?

You rename one of the constants.
The one that's not in the system include file would be most appropriate.
A simple search and replace should do the trick.


SaSW, Willem
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