allenjo5@mail.northgrum.com (John L. Allen) wrote in message news:<95556f1e.0310060934.206bb8b1@posting.google. com>...
> malyjozek@hotmail.com wrote in message news:<262ff291.0309220813.1b5bf766@posting.google. com>...
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am building Python on AIX, and have run into issues building its nis
> > extension. The problem is caused by a missing declaration of
> > yperr_string() function.
> >
> > A quick look in yp headers (/usr/include/rpcsvc/ypclnt.h) reveals the
> > following:
> > extern char *ypserr_string(int);
> >
> > where rest of the world has:
> > extern char *yperr_string(int);
> >
> > AIX documentation talks about yperr_string() and not ypserr_string,
> > and dump or nm on libc.a also shows that yperr_string() is exported
> > and not ypserr_string().
> >
> > Is this a typo in the ypclnt.h header, or is the header correct and I
> > am missing something.
>
> I think you must be missing your good ol' standard Solaris system :-)
>
> All humor aside, I believe it is a type. I've just been bitten by
> this when trying to build the latest NET-NIS module for perl.
>
> Now, are you going to report it to IBM, or should I?
>
> John.

I already let IBM know about this. They confirmed that this was a
typo, and promised that it will be fixed with an APAR available
mid-November.