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+Return-Path: <drfish@uswest.net>
+Delivered-To: julian.smart@ukonline.co.uk
+Delivered-To: fixup-julian.smart@ukonline.co.uk@fixme
+Date: Tue, 01 Dec 1998 23:27:18 -0700
+From: "J.Russell Smyth" <drfish@uswest.net>
+X-Accept-Language: en
+To: Julian Smart <julian.smart@ukonline.co.uk>
+Subject: fixes for mingw32
+
+Julian,
+
+  After 3 hours I have found the problem causing
+
+..\\..\\include\\wx/string.h:520: warning: ANSI C++ forbids implicit
+conversion
+from `void *' in assignment
+
+-There is an error in
+mingw\lib\gcc-lib\i386-mingw32\2.8.1\include\stdarg.h
+
+(not a real diff.. dont have win95 diff avail right now)
+67c67
+<#if defined(__svr4__) || defined(_AIX) || defined(_M_UNIX) ||
+defined(__NetBSD__)
+---
+>#if defined(__svr4__) || defined(_AIX) || defined(_M_UNIX) ||
+defined(__NetBSD__)||defined(__WIN32__)
+
+this fixes it!! I will send a message to the maintainer of mingw to let
+him know of this problem.
+
+