From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Building setup.exe: conflicting declarations of ssize_t
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 12:19:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E676116.9000902@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110907015205.GA5508@ednor.casa.cgf.cx>
On 9/6/2011 9:52 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 03, 2011 at 10:19:57PM -0400, Ken Brown wrote:
>> Building setup.exe fails as follows:
>>
>> depbase=`echo archive.o | sed 's|[^/]*$|.deps/&|;s|\.o$||'`;\
>> i686-pc-mingw32-g++ -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"setup\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"setup\" -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"0\" -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"setup\ 0\" -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"xxx\" -DPACKAGE_URL=\"\" -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_SYS_TYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_STAT_H=1 -DHAVE_STDLIB_H=1 -DHAVE_STRING_H=1 -DHAVE_MEMORY_H=1 -DHAVE_STRINGS_H=1 -DHAVE_INTTYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_STDINT_H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DLT_OBJDIR=\".libs/\" -DHAVE_LIBMINGW32=1 -DHAVE_ERRNO_H=1 -DHAVE_STRING=1 -DHAVE_STRING_H=1 -I. -DLZMA_API_STATIC -I./libgetopt++/include -Werror -Wall -Wno-uninitialized -Wpointer-arith -Wcomments -Wcast-align -Wwrite-strings -g -O2 -MT archive.o -MD -MP -MF $depbase.Tpo -c -o archive.o archive.cc&&\
>> mv -f $depbase.Tpo $depbase.Po
>> In file included from archive.cc:26:0:
>> io_stream.h:37:21: error: conflicting declaration ??typedef long int ssize_t??
>> /usr/i686-pc-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/sys/types.h:118:18: error: ??ssize_t?? has a previous declaration as ??typedef _ssize_t ssize_t??
>>
>> The conflicting declarations result from the following recent change to the mingw-runtime package:
>>
>> 2011-08-19 Chris Sutcliffe<xxx>
>>
>> * include/sys/types.h (ssize_t): Defined as int as opposed to long.
>>
>> The following patch enables the build to complete, but I don't know if it's the right way to fix this:
>>
>> --- io_stream.h.orig 2009-12-18 06:59:54.000000000 -0500
>> +++ io_stream.h 2011-09-03 21:14:44.664235000 -0400
>> @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
>> */
>>
>> //Where is this defined?
>> -#if defined(_WIN32)&& ! defined(__CYGWIN__)
>> +#if defined(_WIN32)&& ! defined(__CYGWIN__)&& ! defined(HAVE_SYS_TYPES_H)
>> typedef signed long ssize_t;
>> #endif
>
> That's definitely the wrong approach to fix the problem.
>
> Why not just include sys/types.h in io_stream.h?
You mean just do this?
--- io_stream.h.orig 2009-12-18 06:59:54.000000000 -0500
+++ io_stream.h 2011-09-07 07:49:04.458548000 -0400
@@ -32,10 +32,7 @@
* make mkdir_p fit in the hierarchy
*/
-//Where is this defined?
-#if defined(_WIN32) && ! defined(__CYGWIN__)
-typedef signed long ssize_t;
-#endif
+#include <sys/types.h>
#if __GNUC__
#define _ATTR_(foo) __attribute__ foo
Ken
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-07 12:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-04 2:19 Ken Brown
2011-09-07 1:52 ` Christopher Faylor
2011-09-07 12:19 ` Ken Brown [this message]
2011-09-09 13:21 ` Christopher Faylor
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