Guys I would really appreciate if you can give me any help on this since I'm getting quite desperate. I'm having some problems to compile the 1982 version of curses under SUSE 9.0 and also some other programs thar are required for the application my company sells. Yeah, I know. you're probably going to say. Why do you need that if you have ncurses already working with SUSE 9.0 The thing is our application uses the old curses to compile and if we swap to the new one they would be too many changes to make to our source code. We have been compiling this curses version + allour codes on several platforms with no problems until now. including AIX, Solaris, SCO and red hat 9. The problems seems to be that the old curses and our applications use include varargs.h which the GCC provided by SUSE 9 does not. I already try editing the code and replacing varargs for stdargs and managed to fix some of the errors, but some other just wont work. I think stdarg.h doesn not support exactly the same varargs does. My idea is to either install an older version of GCC on my suse box or change the code. Do you have any recommendations on what can I do? I'm basically a sysadmin with not much experience in C so changing the code wont be an option. I sincerely appreciate your help Regards Mario PS: Here goes a copy of the errors in compiling the curses, similar errors are found on the other programs sydtimslinux01:/usr/tims/v10/utils.src.linux/curses # make cc -O -DNLS -DHAVE_SHM -DSRCDIR='"/usr/lib/terminfo"' -c -o lib_tparm.o lib_tp arm.c In file included from lib_tparm.c:127: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-suse-linux/3.3.1/include/varargs.h:4:2: #error "GCC no lon ger implements <varargs.h>." /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-suse-linux/3.3.1/include/varargs.h:5:2: #error "Revise you r code to use <stdarg.h>." lib_tparm.c:131: error: parse error before "va_dcl" lib_tparm.c:132: error: syntax error before '{' token lib_tparm.c:146: warning: parameter names (without types) in function declaratio n lib_tparm.c:146: warning: data definition has no type or storage class lib_tparm.c:147: error: conflicting types for `string' lib_tparm.c:134: error: previous declaration of `string' lib_tparm.c:147: error: `parms' undeclared here (not in a function) lib_tparm.c:147: error: parse error before "char" lib_tparm.c:179: warning: data definition has no type or storage class lib_tparm.c:180: error: conflicting types for `bufptr' lib_tparm.c:169: error: previous declaration of `bufptr' lib_tparm.c:180: warning: data definition has no type or storage class lib_tparm.c:182: error: parse error before "while" lib_tparm.c:205: error: invalid type argument of `unary *' lib_tparm.c:205: warning: data definition has no type or storage class lib_tparm.c:206: error: parse error before "if" lib_tparm.c:248: error: `__n' undeclared here (not in a function) lib_tparm.c:248: warning: data definition has no type or storage class lib_tparm.c:248: error: parse error before '}' token lib_tparm.c:249: error: parse error before '.' token lib_tparm.c:262: error: parse error before '.' token lib_tparm.c:267: error: parse error before '.' token lib_tparm.c:268: error: parse error before '++' token lib_tparm.c:279: error: parse error before '.' token lib_tparm.c:284: error: initializer element is not constant lib_tparm.c:284: warning: data definition has no type or storage class lib_tparm.c:285: error: parse error before "if" lib_tparm.c:285: error: parse error before '.' token lib_tparm.c:285: error: parse error before "if" lib_tparm.c:285: error: parse error before '.' token lib_tparm.c:290: error: redefinition of `x' lib_tparm.c:284: error: `x' previously defined here lib_tparm.c:290: error: initializer element is not constant lib_tparm.c:290: warning: data definition has no type or storage class lib_tparm.c:291: error: parse error before "if" lib_tparm.c:291: error: parse error before '.' token lib_tparm.c:296: error: redefinition of `x' lib_tparm.c:290: error: `x' previously defined here lib_tparm.c:296: error: initializer element is not constant lib_tparm.c:296: warning: data definition has no type or storage class lib_tparm.c:297: error: parse error before "if" lib_tparm.c:297: error: parse error before '.' token lib_tparm.c:302: error: redefinition of `x' lib_tparm.c:296: error: `x' previously defined here lib_tparm.c:302: error: initializer element is not constant lib_tparm.c:302: warning: data definition has no type or storage class lib_tparm.c:303: error: parse error before "if" lib_tparm.c:303: error: parse error before '.' token lib_tparm.c:308: error: redefinition of `x' lib_tparm.c:302: error: `x' previously defined here lib_tparm.c:308: error: initializer element is not constant lib_tparm.c:308: warning: data definition has no type or storage class lib_tparm.c:309: error: parse error before "if" lib_tparm.c:309: error: parse error before '.' token lib_tparm.c:314: error: redefinition of `x' lib_tparm.c:308: error: `x' previously defined here lib_tparm.c:314: error: initializer element is not constant lib_tparm.c:314: warning: data definition has no type or storage class lib_tparm.c:315: error: parse error before "if" lib_tparm.c:315: error: parse error before '.' token lib_tparm.c:320: error: redefinition of `x' lib_tparm.c:314: error: `x' previously defined here lib_tparm.c:320: error: initializer element is not constant lib_tparm.c:320: warning: data definition has no type or storage class lib_tparm.c:321: error: parse error before "if" lib_tparm.c:321: error: parse error before "if" lib_tparm.c:321: error: parse error before '.' token lib_tparm.c:326: error: redefinition of `x' lib_tparm.c:320: error: `x' previously defined here lib_tparm.c:326: error: initializer element is not constant lib_tparm.c:326: warning: data definition has no type or storage class lib_tparm.c:327: error: parse error before "if" lib_tparm.c:327: error: parse error before '.' token lib_tparm.c:332: error: redefinition of `x' lib_tparm.c:326: error: `x' previously defined here lib_tparm.c:332: error: initializer element is not constant lib_tparm.c:332: warning: data definition has no type or storage class lib_tparm.c:333: error: parse error before "if" lib_tparm.c:333: error: parse error before '.' token lib_tparm.c:338: error: redefinition of `x' lib_tparm.c:332: error: `x' previously defined here lib_tparm.c:338: error: initializer element is not constant lib_tparm.c:338: warning: data definition has no type or storage class lib_tparm.c:339: error: parse error before "if" lib_tparm.c:339: error: parse error before '.' token lib_tparm.c:344: error: redefinition of `x' lib_tparm.c:338: error: `x' previously defined here lib_tparm.c:344: error: initializer element is not constant lib_tparm.c:344: warning: data definition has no type or storage class lib_tparm.c:345: error: parse error before "if" lib_tparm.c:345: error: parse error before '.' token lib_tparm.c:349: error: parse error before '.' token lib_tparm.c:353: error: parse error before '.' token lib_tparm.c:359: error: redefinition of `p' lib_tparm.c:248: error: `p' previously defined here lib_tparm.c:359: error: `__n' undeclared here (not in a function) lib_tparm.c:359: warning: data definition has no type or storage class lib_tparm.c:359: error: parse error before '}' token lib_tparm.c:359: error: parse error before '++' token lib_tparm.c:360: error: redefinition of `p' lib_tparm.c:359: error: `p' previously defined here lib_tparm.c:360: error: `__n' undeclared here (not in a function) lib_tparm.c:360: error: `__n' undeclared here (not in a function) lib_tparm.c:360: warning: data definition has no type or storage class lib_tparm.c:360: error: parse error before '}' token lib_tparm.c:360: error: parse error before '++' token lib_tparm.c:377: warning: data definition has no type or storage class lib_tparm.c:378: error: parse error before "while" lib_tparm.c:405: error: redefinition of `level' lib_tparm.c:377: error: `level' previously defined here lib_tparm.c:405: warning: data definition has no type or storage class lib_tparm.c:406: error: parse error before "while" lib_tparm.c:439: error: conflicting types for `bufptr' lib_tparm.c:180: error: previous declaration of `bufptr' lib_tparm.c:439: warning: data definition has no type or storage class lib_tparm.c:440: error: parse error before "return" lib_tparm.c:443: warning: parameter names (without types) in function declaratio n lib_tparm.c:443: warning: data definition has no type or storage class lib_tparm.c:444: error: parse error before '}' token lib_tparm.c: In function `tgoto': lib_tparm.c:465: warning: return makes pointer from integer without a cast make: *** [lib_tparm.o] Error 1 sydtimslinux01:/usr/tims/v10/utils.src.linux/curses #