C Code mutilation by using gcc-3.3.x

Mike Stump mrs@apple.com
Wed Feb 4 21:58:00 GMT 2004


On Wednesday, February 4, 2004, at 01:29 PM, Robert M. Stockmann wrote:
> To be more specific about what i am complaining about, here's a
> error message i get when doing ./configure inside ntfsprogs-1.8.4 :
>
> checking version of gcc... 2.95.3, bad
> configure: error: Please upgrade your gcc compiler to gcc-2.96+ or 
> gcc-3+
> version! Earlier compiler versions will NOT work as these do not 
> support
> unnamed/annonymous structures and unions which are used heavily in 
> linux-ntfs.
> [jackson:stock]:(~/src/ntfsprogs-1.8.4)$

Complain to your software vendor that gives you software that won't 
compile, not us.  We did not give you the software.  This is a bug in 
the software you have.



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