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Re: thread build on solaris
> This is having the unfortunate side effect that a lot of packages that
> used to compile perfectly fine with gcc-3 are no longer doing so with
> gcc-4.
The major Linux distributions use GCC 4.x so this should be doable.
> Here's another example I'm finding:
>
> Constructs of the form
>
> extern enum vtype iftovt_tab[];
>
> are now failing with forgiving
>
> error: array type has incomplete element type
>
> This would be fine if it was code that I controlled - but the matter
> of fact is that this code is in /usr/include/sys/mode.h, which comes
> bundled with solaris 10, and the upshot is that I'm going to have to
> somehow hack solaris headers in order to make gcc-4.3.2 be able to
> compile perl-5.10.0.
This should be fix-included if it's really a bug in the Solaris headers.
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Eric Botcazou