Eric, I'm not sure what you are trying to say here - that it should be fixed locally on my side at the level of the header file? Or something else? Fixing locally really isn't feasible as I'm working with a large amount of code (a whole code distribution, in fact) and who knows how many anachronisms are in the solaris headers.
Ed On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Eric Botcazou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> This is having the unfortunate side effect that a lot of packages that >> used to compile perfectly fine with gcc-3 are no longer doing so with >> gcc-4. > > The major Linux distributions use GCC 4.x so this should be doable. > >> Here's another example I'm finding: >> >> Constructs of the form >> >> extern enum vtype iftovt_tab[]; >> >> are now failing with forgiving >> >> error: array type has incomplete element type >> >> This would be fine if it was code that I controlled - but the matter >> of fact is that this code is in /usr/include/sys/mode.h, which comes >> bundled with solaris 10, and the upshot is that I'm going to have to >> somehow hack solaris headers in order to make gcc-4.3.2 be able to >> compile perl-5.10.0. > > This should be fix-included if it's really a bug in the Solaris headers. > > -- > Eric Botcazou >
