Update options.c so it can compile on Sun

[ericcurtin]

Hi Guys,

I'm a heavy user of ctags and I love it thanks for all your hard work. I wanted to compile the latest version on ctags on a Sun/Solaris server at work, I don't have root access and asking IT to do it is a pain. So I thought compiling it myself was a better option. I compiled it pretty quickly thanks for making it so easy!

But I also have bad news the following doesn't compile on Sun so I removed them from my build because I did not want their functionality:

asm.c eiffel.c flex.c fortran.c jscript.c ocaml.c python.c sql.c tex.c vhdl.c

But I did make a code change to options.c as it seemed like a pretty important file to compile. This is the error you receive if you try to compile without this code change:

"options.c", line 661: Error: Cannot use const char* to initialize char*.

I made my decision based on this:

http://stackoverflow.com/a/833114

I have no knowledge of the codebase so I thought this change would have the most minimal effect. I will leave you decide if you want to ifdef around it so that this change only occurs during the Sun compile.

Regards,

Eric Curtin

[mattn]

Thanks. But I don't understand what your said. You pointed some *.c in above but you had fixed problem by modifying one source file not header file. And also this is C code not C++ code. So you must not use class template. You should use C cast operator (char*) simply.

[k-takata]

Perhaps, you use a C++ compiler instead of a C compiler. Please make sure that you use a C compiler.

[mattn]

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