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Re: libstdc++ build failure on darwin5.2
Paolo Carlini wrote:
>
> Stan Shebs wrote:
>
> > > > Andreas Tobler wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > /usr/include/string.h:63: syntax error before `;' token
> > > >
> > > > I'm seeing this one too. Not the first time we've been outsmarted
> > > > by Darwin's yet-another-random-BSD with _BSD_*_T macros. As before,
> > > > we'll have to slog through #ifdef/#ifndef/#ifnoncomputablefunction
> > > > to see what's causing it this time...
> > >
> > > Seems so. Arghh.
> >
> > Try this patch - it got me through libstdc++ build, it's running
> > tests now. If it works with those and other twisted code I have,
> > then I'll submit it.
>
> Hi,
>
> there is something I do not understand at all here: how possibly this kind of
> problem can be related to mine and Benjamin's most recent changes to libstdc++
> header files? I'm asking this since yesterday, unfortunately, I have been unable
> to help Andreas: he reported that everything worked fine just before them!
Presumably a subtle change in include order. Normally it wouldn't
matter whether one included ctype.h before or after stddef.h, but
your change exposed what must have been a longstanding bug in the
Darwin port (thank you!).
Stan