Re: solaris 10 with gcc 3.3.2

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "Belbin, Peter" <PBelbin@McLeodUSA.com>
Cc: pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org
Date: 2004-12-18T06:00:05Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs
I wrote:
> This is standard practice for gcc: it tries to use "cleaned up" versions
> of system headers that will not elicit useless warnings from gcc.  It's
> a good idea, actually, because the degree of insanity in vendor-supplied
> system headers is pretty depressing.  But if the gcc install process
> generated an invalid "cleanup" file then you need to take that up with
> the gcc boys, not us.

On rereading this, a nearly-dead neuron fired --- I have seen problems
of this sort arise when someone took a gcc installation generated on
NiftyVendorUnix M.N and copied it verbatim to NiftyVendorUnix M.N+1,
or indeed any release other than M.N.  Then you have a situation where
gcc is inserting cleaned-up versions of some system headers but not
others (because it doesn't force the issue when it doesn't have to),
and if the vendor did something like move a typedef from one header
to another, you lose, because the cleaned-up headers are not in sync
with the others.

In short ... where'd you get your gcc installation from?

			regards, tom lane