Re: egcs-1.1.2 HP-UX 10.x compilation question

["Martin v. Loewis" <martin at loewis dot home dot cs dot tu-berlin dot de>]

> I have a question regarding g++-2.9.5 (egcs-1.1.2) compilation
> on HP-UX 10.x platform.

Thanks for your bug report. I'm somewhat confused about the version
you are running; there never was a release 2.9.5. The current release
is 2.95.2, or two-ninetyfive-two. Apparently, you run egcs 1.1.2,
which is also known as 2.91.66.

> /usr/include/sys/time.h:337: `extern' can only be specified for objects and functions
> 
> Questions
> ---------
> 
> - Does this indicate that the /usr/include directory
>   has some problems ?

I don't know, what is the contents of sys/time.h around line 337?

> - Does this indicate that the gcc installation has
>   some problem ?

Normally, if there are really problems with the system headers, gcc
runs the 'fixincludes' script to correct all known problems. I think
egcs 1.1.2 had been tested on HPUX 10, so it seems there is an
installation problem.

> - Is there any easy workaround ? For instance, to get rid
>   of the "time.h" include problem, all I had to do was make
>   the following link
>   > ln -s <gcc_include_dir>/time.h <gcc_include_dir/sys/time.h
>   However, this approach is not good, plus it does not work
>   for other files like algo.h.

algo.h is part of the gcc distribution, so it should not give any
errors at all. What errors do you get for it?

Martin