hi, moving (finally) to bldg syslog-ng 1.9-snapshot on OSX 10.4.2 prereqs of glib 2.7.7 & eventlog-snapshot are built/installed. syslog-ng-1.9-snapshot fails on 'make' @: ... if gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I/usr/local/bind9/include -I/usr/local/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/local/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/local/include/eventlog -D_GNU_SOURCE -g -O2 -Wall -g -MT affile.o -MD -MP -MF ".deps/affile.Tpo" -c -o affile.o affile.c; \ then mv -f ".deps/affile.Tpo" ".deps/affile.Po"; else rm -f ".deps/affile.Tpo"; exit 1; fi affile.c:305: error: conflicting types for 'affile_dd_set_file_perm' affile.c:305: note: an argument type that has a default promotion can't match an empty parameter name list declaration affile.h:75: error: previous declaration of 'affile_dd_set_file_perm' was here affile.c:329: error: conflicting types for 'affile_dd_set_dir_perm' affile.c:329: note: an argument type that has a default promotion can't match an empty parameter name list declaration affile.h:78: error: previous declaration of 'affile_dd_set_dir_perm' was here affile.c: In function 'affile_dd_init': affile.c:422: warning: comparison is always false due to limited range of data type affile.c:428: warning: comparison is always false due to limited range of data type make[2]: *** [affile.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make: *** [all] Error 2 % checking the declarations for 'affile_dd_set_file_perm' ... % grep affile_dd_set_file_perm `grep -rln affile_dd_set_file_perm .` ./src/affile.c:affile_dd_set_file_perm(LogPipe *s, mode_t file_perm) ./src/affile.h:void affile_dd_set_file_perm(); ./src/cfg-grammar.c: { affile_dd_set_file_perm(last_driver, yyvsp[-1].num); } ./src/cfg-grammar.c: { affile_dd_set_file_perm(last_driver, yyvsp[-1].num); } ./src/cfg-grammar.y: | KW_PERM '(' NUMBER ')' { affile_dd_set_file_perm(last_driver, $3); } ./src/cfg-grammar.y: | KW_PERM '(' NUMBER ')' { affile_dd_set_file_perm(last_driver, $3); } it's not immediately clear which is the conflict. ideas? richard