From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2007 10:25:54 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Rename warn() to warning() to fix symbol conflicts on BSD and Mac OS
Message-ID: <20070401102554.GA20579@steel.home>
In-Reply-To: <7vejn5ygkc.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano, Sat, Mar 31, 2007 10:15:31 +0200:
> >>I finally tracked down all the (albeit inconsequential) errors I was getting
> >>on both OpenBSD and OSX.  It's the warn() function in usage.c.  There's
> >>warn(3) in BSD-style distros.  It'd take a "great rename" to change it, but if
> >>someone with better C skills than I have could do that, my linker and I would
> >>appreciate it.
> >
> > It was annoying to me, too, when I was doing some mergetool testing on
> > Mac OS X, so here's a fix.
> 
> I'd take this for now, but I wonder where we should stop. 

Glibc also has warn(3) - see err.h for example.
(why is it part of libc, I wonder...)