Re: Continued problems compiling with Cygwin 1.3.x

[Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)]

At 09:39 AM 8/28/2001, Jonathan Fosburgh wrote:
>I brought this up once before but never received any responses (at least that I saw.) 
>It seems to have happened with the upgrade to 1.3.x.  Currently I am using the 
>patched version of 1.3.2 that ships with KDE, but this was also happenning on the 
>released version of 1.3.2. Most attempts to compile anything keep failing at some 
>point or another with syntax errors in some of the system include files.  I have 
>included the output from one such failure during a run of configure trying to build 
>xfce.  But this happens with basically anything I have tried to build lately.
>
>configure:1566: gcc -Xc -D__EXTENSIONS__ -c -g -O2  conftest.c 1>&5
>gcc: unrecognized option `-Xc'
>In file included from /usr/include/stdio.h:48,
>                  from configure:1531:
>/usr/include/sys/reent.h:114: parse error before `ssize_t'
>/usr/include/sys/reent.h:114: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or union
>/usr/include/sys/reent.h:115: warning: `__cdecl__' attribute directive ignored
>/usr/include/sys/reent.h:115: parse error before `('
>/usr/include/sys/reent.h:137: parse error before `}'
>/usr/include/sys/reent.h:238: field `__sf' has incomplete type
>In file included from configure:1531:
>/usr/include/stdio.h: In function `__sgetc':
>/usr/include/stdio.h:285: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
>/usr/include/stdio.h:285: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
>/usr/include/stdio.h:286: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
>/usr/include/stdio.h:288: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
>/usr/include/stdio.h:288: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
>In file included from configure:1532:
>/usr/include/sys/types.h: At top level:
>/usr/include/sys/types.h:137: `ssize_t' redeclared as different kind of symbol
>
>Which fileset contains these? I was assuming it was the cygwin dll itself, but I even 
>tried backing out to 1.1.8 but to no avail.  Is there something else I should either 
>try to backout or look at updating? Thanks for the help.



Forgive me if I don't do all your work for you but I find ssize_t in 
/usr/include/sys/types.h.  grepping around a bit might shed some additional
light that helps you resolve all your problems here.

Good luck,



Larry Hall                              [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
118 Washington Street                   (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746                     (508) 893-9889 - FAX


--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Bug reporting:         http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/