c++/4626: g++ 3.0.1 fails to find "stddef.h" when recompiling templates

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>Number:         4626
>Category:       c++
>Synopsis:       g++ 3.0.1 fails to find "stddef.h" when recompiling templates
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    unassigned
>State:          open
>Class:          support
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Oct 19 20:06:00 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Chris Rankin
>Release:        3.0.1
>Organization:
>Environment:
i686-pc-linux-gnu
>Description:
$ g++ -v
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.0.1/specs
Configured with: ../gcc-3.0.1/configure --prefix=/usr -enable-version-specific-runtime-libs --with-gnu-binutils --enable-shared --enable-nls
Thread model: single
gcc version 3.0.1


And then:
g++ -ansi -Wl,-s -O3 -fno-implement-inlines -pedantic -pipe -Wall -W -Wshadow -Wwrite-strings -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wredundant-decls -Wsign-compare -Winline -D_POSIX_SOURCE -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L -D_BSD_SOURCE -D_XOPEN_SOURCE -D__EXTENSIONS__ -DARCH="Linux 2.4.12 i686" -DUSERNAME=chris -DHOSTNAME=twopit -DMAJOR_VERSION="2" -DMINOR_VERSION="1"  banner.cpp main.o phonedata.o eventdata.o parser.o header.o footer.o controlfile.o eventfile.o write.o hardcoded.o long2string.o string2long.o datatypes.o destinationtype.o libgnutemplate.a -o genevent 
collect: recompiling datatypes.cpp
In file included from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.0.1/include/g++/bits/std_cstring.h:37,
                 from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.0.1/include/g++/cstring:31,
                 from datatypes.cpp:1:
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.0.1/include/g++/bits/std_cstddef.h:38:25: stddef.h: No such file or directory
In file included from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.0.1/include/g++/bits/std_cstring.h:37,
                 from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.0.1/include/g++/cstring:31,
                 from datatypes.cpp:1:
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.0.1/include/g++/bits/std_cstddef.h:42: `ptrdiff_t'
   not declared
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.0.1/include/g++/bits/std_cstddef.h:43: `size_t'
   not declared
In file included from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.0.1/include/g++/bits/fpos.h:39,
...
It all goes downhill from there.
>How-To-Repeat:
>From the Makefile:

CXX=g++ -ansi
CXXFLAGS=-O3 \
         -fno-implement-inlines \
         -pedantic \
         -pipe \
         -Wall -W \
         -Wshadow \
         -Wwrite-strings \
         -Wstrict-prototypes \
         -Wmissing-prototypes \
         -Wmissing-declarations \
         -Wredundant-decls \
         -Wsign-compare \
         -Winline \
         $(CXXDEFINE) \
         $(INCLUDE)

CXXDEFINE=-D_POSIX_SOURCE -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L \
          -D_BSD_SOURCE -D_XOPEN_SOURCE \
          -D__EXTENSIONS__

The code makes heavy use of the STL. The first-pass compilation works fine, but it fails when recompiling the templates.
>Fix:

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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