Re: fails to compile with undefined symbol (FP_PLUS_INF)

Hello,

On 3/16/06, Seneca Cunningham <scunning(at)ca(dot)afilias(dot)info> wrote:
>
> > Ah-hah. This probably indicates that the gcc you are using was
> > originally generated on a different version of AIX. It's always bad
> > news when gcc's copies of the headers don't match the real ones :-(

incorrect: i built the gcc myself by boostrapping from an older binary gcc.
I did exactly to avoid this kind of problems.

>
> > These copies are generated during gcc build by a script called
> > "fixincludes". You might be able to fix them up by just re-running
> > fixincludes. My inclination would be to rebuild gcc altogether though.
>
> My gcc build is like that and I was the one who built it to replace
> another build of gcc. gcc doesn't seem to like float.h on AIX and just
> uses its own as part of fixincludes; math.h comes out in a more intact
> state. This means that on AIX versions where math.h also contains
> FP_PLUS_INF (and the rest of that block of defines), the defines do
> occur. It would appear that 4.2 doesn't also contain the necessary
> defines as part of math.h (protected by an #ifndef on 5.3).
>
>
yes, that seems to be it: float.h gets replaced and I don't have the defines
in math.h too thus you have more redundancy. I might just hack the gcc
include at this point.
fixinclude b0rked it.

-R