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