From interran@lurch.Stanford.EDU Mon May 6 14:48:49 1991 Newsgroups: comp.windows.interviews From: interran@lurch.Stanford.EDU (John Interrante) Subject: Re: Help compiling IV 3.0 on Sun4/SunOS 4.1.1 In-Reply-To: lms@RLE-VLSI.MIT.EDU's message of 6 May 91 14:43:06 GMT Date: 6 May 91 14:46:52 In article <9105061443.AA00902@galerkin.MIT.EDU> lms@RLE-VLSI.MIT.EDU (Luis Miguel Silveira) writes: A compilation error shows up in iv/src/lib/Interviews/world.c: /usr/local/bin/CC -O -pic -Dcplusplus_2_0 -I.. -I../../../.././src/include -c ../world.c CC ../world.c: "/usr/local/include/CC/stddef.h", line 6: error: size_t redefined: previous: int now: unsigned int "/usr/local/include/CC/stddef.h", line 6: error: size_t declared as int and unsigned int 2 errors *** Error code 1 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `world.o' Not being a C++ programmer so I really do not understand what is happening other than the info provided above. Is this an Interviews problem or (more likely) a problem with our local C++ installation ? Neither. The problem is with SunOS 4.1. They goofed and defined size_t as int instead of unsigned int. We patched the offending header file as follows: *** /usr/include/sys/stdtypes.h.save Wed Feb 7 23:01:52 1990 --- /usr/include/sys/stdtypes.h Fri Jun 1 02:18:40 1990 *************** *** 24,30 **** typedef long clock_t; /* units=ticks (typically 60/sec) */ typedef long time_t; /* value = secs since epoch */ ! typedef int size_t; /* ??? */ typedef int ptrdiff_t; /* result of subtracting two pointers */ typedef unsigned short wchar_t; /* big enough for biggest char set */ --- 24,30 ---- typedef long clock_t; /* units=ticks (typically 60/sec) */ typedef long time_t; /* value = secs since epoch */ ! typedef unsigned int size_t; /* ??? */ typedef int ptrdiff_t; /* result of subtracting two pointers */ typedef unsigned short wchar_t; /* big enough for biggest char set */ -- John Interrante / interran@lurch.stanford.edu