Newspost fails to build on 9.10 - Solution

[Robert Spanjaard]

I suppose Ubuntu has quite a lot of newspost-users, because the 
repositories don't have any alternatives (AFAIK). This is the bugreport 
that I sent to the author of this great little program, Jim Faulkner:

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Newspost fails to install on new distros, like my Ubuntu 9.10.
The error message I get after typing "make" is "error: conflicting types 
for 'getline'". After a bit of Googling (I'm not a programmer myself) I 
found this explanation in a newsgroup:

http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.bugs.dist/msg/4b23088fe713bc63

This means that you need to rename "getline" to "get_line" at the 
following locations:

base/newspost.c, line 345
base/utils.c, line 46
base/utils.h, line 29
ui/options.c, line 335 and 432

Just tried it myself, and newspost compiles again like it should.
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It's a small fix, so if you're afraid to change sourcefiles, I expect the 
author to release a fixed version soon.

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Regards, Robert                                      http://www.arumes.com