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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Mon Sep 26 2005 - 10:09:15 CDT

Seth,
  What operating system are you building on? This may be a simple problem
with lack of (or conflict with) system-supplied single-precision acosf()
and other transcendental functions. If you tell us more about your
system, we ought to be able to suggest a Makefile change or two that will
cure this problem. I'm not sure how compiling VMD 1.8.3 would have any
effect on your old VMD 1.8.2 install, unless you unpacked them into
the same directory or something like that. They need to be installed into
their own directories, if you install one over the other, that would indeed
cause some problems.

  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 03:28:22PM +1000, Dr. Seth Olsen wrote:
> Hi VMDers,
>
> I tried to build VMD 1.8.3 from source and after configuration the 'make'
> failed with a bunch of errors I've never seen before. Also, trying to do
> this has apparently ruined certain critical functionality of my previous VMD
> 1.8.2 build. The errors were:
>
> Compiling ArtDisplayDevice.C --> ArtDisplayDevice.o ...
> In file included from /usr/include/math.h:93,
> from ArtDisplayDevice.C:28:
> /usr/include/bits/mathcalls.h:55: error: declaration of C function `float
> acos(float)' conflicts with
> /usr/include/bits/mathcalls.h:55: error: previous declaration `double
> acos(double)' here
> /usr/include/bits/mathcalls.h:64: error: declaration of C function `float
> cos(float)' conflicts with
> /usr/include/bits/mathcalls.h:64: error: previous declaration `double
> cos(double)' here
> /usr/include/bits/mathcalls.h:66: error: declaration of C function `float
> sin(float)' conflicts with
> /usr/include/bits/mathcalls.h:66: error: previous declaration `double
> sin(double)' here
> /usr/include/bits/mathcalls.h:157: error: declaration of C function `float
> sqrt(float)' conflicts with
> /usr/include/bits/mathcalls.h:157: error: previous declaration `double
> sqrt(double)' here
> /usr/include/bits/mathcalls.h:182: error: declaration of C function `float
> fabs(float)' conflicts with
> /usr/include/bits/mathcalls.h:182: error: previous declaration `double
> fabs(double)' here
> In file included from /usr/include/math.h:382,
> from ArtDisplayDevice.C:28:
> /usr/include/bits/mathinline.h: In function `double fabs(double)':
> /usr/include/bits/mathinline.h:451: error: declaration of C function `double
> fabs(double)' conflicts with
> /usr/include/bits/mathcalls.h:182: error: previous declaration `float
> fabs(float)' here
> /usr/include/bits/mathinline.h: In function `float fabs(float)':
> /usr/include/bits/mathinline.h:452: error: declaration of C function `float
> fabs(float)' conflicts with
> /usr/include/bits/mathinline.h:451: error: previous declaration `double
> fabs(double)' here
> make: *** [ArtDisplayDevice.o] Error 1
>
>
> Does anybody have an idea how to fix this?
>
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