Error compiling GNU grep

[Ed Ravin]

In article <BIS.91May22190433 at krokrygg.ifi.uio.no> bis at ifi.uio.no (Bjorn Ivar Stark) writes:
>I get this error message when I try to compile GNU grep on
>RS/6000 AIX 3.1
>level 3002. Can someone HELP me?
>
>  fosli at asterix /local/lib/gnu/grep-1.5: make all
>   cc -DUSG -O -c dfa.c
>  Processing include file ./dfa.h
>   21   140 | typedef int size_t;
>       ............a......
>  a - 1506-046: (S) Syntax error.
>  File Line Column Message text
>   21   140    1 1506-137: (S) Previous declaration must declare
>at least one 
>  declarator, tag, or the  members of an enumeration.
>  Processing include file ./dfa.h
>   21   190 | #define NULL 0
>      1506-236: (W) Macro name NULL has been redefined.
>  make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 1.
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In article <BIS.91May22190433 at krokrygg.ifi.uio.no> bis at ifi.uio.no
(Bjorn Ivar Stark) writes:
>I get this error message when I try to compile GNU grep on
>RS/6000 AIX 3.1
>   cc -DUSG -O -c dfa.c
>  Processing include file ./dfa.h
>   21   140 | typedef int size_t;
>       ............a......
>  a - 1506-046: (S) Syntax error.
>  File Line Column Message text
>   21   140    1 1506-137: (S) Previous declaration must declare
>at least one 
>  declarator, tag, or the  members of an enumeration.
>  Processing include file ./dfa.h
>   21   190 | #define NULL 0
>      1506-236: (W) Macro name NULL has been redefined.
>  make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 1.

Both "size_t" and "NULL" are defined in system include files somewhere.
I had this when trying to compile some other BSD source.  At least
the message you get for NULL is sensible -- the one for size_t is so
convoluted that you're never really sure what they're talking about.

One solution: grep through /usr/include/*.h to find out which files
define "size_t" and NULL -- then make sure that file gets included in
"dfa.h", and comment out the local definitions in "dfa.h".
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