compiler problem

[Bill Medland]

On March 5, 2006 09:11 am, tlwarre at aol.com wrote:
> Hello Linux experts:
>     I have just obtained a Dell Precision 670n workstation
> with a 3.6 GHz Intel Xeon Processor running Red Hat Enterprise
> Linux WS v4 for EM64T 64bit system.  I am also using The
> Portland Group 64bit Linux complete compilers 6.1.  When I run
> a Make file I am getting this error:
>
SNIP
> /usr/include/sys/cdefs.h:31: #error "You need a ISO C
> conforming compiler to use the glibc headers"
>
> With previous versions of Red Hat Linux on 32 bit machines
> with the pgroup compilers I did not have this problem.  Is
> there anything I can do to fix this problem?

Option 1. Talk to the supplier of your compiler.  This is your 
best option.
Option 2. You can try modifying your makefiles to add -D__STDC__; 
it should stop that particular message but I don't know what 
other effects it will have.

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Bill Medland
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