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Re: Compile error - basic_string.h
"Redmer, Autumn \(A.\)" <aredmer@ford.com> writes:
> We are moving an application from HP UX to Linux. When I try to compile
> a couple of the programs on Linux (using gcc 3.3.3), I get errors like
> this:
>
> In file included from /usr/include/g++/string:53,
> from /usr/include/g++/bits/locale_classes.h:47,
> from /usr/include/g++/bits/ios_base.h:47,
> from /usr/include/g++/ios:49,
> from /usr/include/g++/ostream:45,
> from /usr/include/g++/iostream:45,
> from FlexCode.h:26,
> from Constraint.h:29,
> from AnalysisUtils.h:19,
> from AnalysisUtils.cpp:16:
> /usr/include/g++/bits/basic_string.h: In member function `int
> std::basic_string<_CharT, _Traits, _Alloc>::compare(const
> std::basic_string<_CharT, _Traits, _Alloc>&) const':
> /usr/include/g++/bits/basic_string.h:824: error: syntax error before `;'
> token
>
> Can you give me any suggestions on where I should try to start debugging
> this?
Look for a preprocessor macro which might be messing up the header
file.
One way to do this is to run the compiler with --save-temps to
generate a .ii file. Look for the basic_string.h code in the .ii
file. Compare it to the same code in the .h file. See if there are
any interesting differences.
Ian