On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Zdenek Kotala <[email protected]> wrote: > During integration gcc4.2 into Solaris. My colleague hit a following > problem with PostgreSQL compilation: > > http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6845982 > > cd > /builds/sfw-fixes/usr/src/cmd/postgres/postgresql-8.2/postgresql-8.2.13/src/pl/plperl > + /ws/onnv-tools/SUNWspro/SS12/bin/cc -xO3 -m32 -xchip=pentium -xspace -Xa > -xildoff -xc99=all -xc99=none -xCC -KPIC -I. -I../../../src/include > -I/builds/sfw-fixes/proto/root_i386/usr/include > -I/builds/sfw-fixes/proto/root_i386/usr/sfw/include -I/usr/sfw/include > -I/usr/include/kerberosv5 -I/usr/perl5/5.8.4/lib/i86pc-solaris-64int/CORE -c > -o plperl.o plperl.c > "/usr/include/sys/list.h", line 52: identifier redeclared: list_head > current : function(pointer to struct list {unsigned int list_size, > unsigned int list_offset, struct list_node {..} list_head}) returning pointer > to void > previous: function(pointer to struct List {enum NodeTag > {T_TIDBitmap(902), (blah blah) > > At this moment there is no clear conclusion how to fix it in solaris system > headers to satisfy all side. :( > > My idea is to rename list_head to pg_list_head (and other functions > analogously) to avoid name conflict. > > Comments, better ideas?
Uh... isn't it rather bad form for the operating system headers to be defining commonly used type names like "list"? I'd be very surprised if PostgreSQL is the only application that is going to break on this. ...Robert -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
