Name Conflicts between C++ and C

[GGF]

I am porting a code which ran on HP unix to CentOS. It was a working code and a c++ file and now I tried to compile with gcc3-3.4.6 and gcc4-4.2.4 also. But still I get this conflicts in declaration error as pasted below.

In file included from ../../../lol/ntk/nt_kslog.h:155,
from ../../../lol/ntk/nt_kernel.h:243,
from ../../../lol/ntk/nt_cp.h:110,
from ../../../soml/include/soml-afi-afu.h:131,
from ../../include/pcdb.h:58,
from ../../include/pcdb_addtypes.h:59,
from pcdb_addtypes.cc:94:

/opt/bcs/include/syslog.h:93: error: previous declaration of 'void syslog(int, const char*, ...)' with 'C++' linkage
/opt/bcs/include/syslog.h:93: error: conflicts with new declaration with 'C' linkage

Here pcdb.h , pcdb_addtypes.h are c++ headers and rest are C headers and I see that proper extern is mentioned in pcdb.h for soml-afi-afu.h. Also syslog is a declaration which I cannot make it extern as I cant change the code. My code is only the C++ part and is the files mentioned above?

Also , I work on Centos 5 box and it compiled without any issues on one machine and the same throws this error on other box with centos and both compilers.

Could anyone please help me as I am in a very hurry to solve this ? Where Am I going wrong ?

Please help.

-GGF

[myork]

If you are going to use a C++ compiler to compile C source then the C header files should have the following at the top:

Code:

#ifdef  __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif

// All the normal file stuff

#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif