I'm trying to compile slony 1.1.0, and not getting very far.

Platform summary: x86, gentoo linux, postgresql 8.0.3, gcc 3.2.2

The first problem is that there is no such type as "int64", as the 
following compile failures in src/slon show:

gcc -g -O2 -pthread -I../.. -I/home/tim/pg/include/ 
-I/home/tim/pg/include/ -I/home/tim/pg/include/postgresql/server/  -c -o 
slon.o slon.c
In file included from slon.h:18,
                  from slon.c:30:
misc.h:29: parse error before "int64"
In file included from slon.c:30:
slon.h:95: parse error before "int64"
slon.h:95: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or union
slon.h:111: parse error before '}' token

and many more just like them.

I kludged my way past that one with a
typedef long long int64;
in misc.h, but the next set of errors look a bit harder to fix simply:

gcc -g -O2 -pthread -I../.. -I/home/tim/pg/include/ 
-I/home/tim/pg/include/ -I/home/tim/pg/include/postgresql/server/  -c -o 
slon.o slon.c
In file included from slon.c:31:
confoptions.h:103: initializer element is not constant
confoptions.h:103: (near initialization for 
`ConfigureNamesInt[0].gen.short_desc')
confoptions.h:104: initializer element is not constant
confoptions.h:104: (near initialization for 
`ConfigureNamesInt[0].gen.long_desc')
confoptions.h:106: initializer element is not constant
confoptions.h:106: (near initialization for `ConfigureNamesInt[0].gen')
confoptions.h:111: initializer element is not constant
confoptions.h:111: (near initialization for `ConfigureNamesInt[0]')

and many more lines like these.

I've browsed the mailing list archives, expecting to see them 
overflowing with similar reports, but haven't seen any at all, so 
presumably there is something relatively unusual in my installation. Any 
ideas as to what it might be?

Tim

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