[Ecls-list] features.h is harmful

Gabriel Dos Reis gdr at cs.tamu.edu
Sat Aug 21 20:02:27 UTC 2010


Hi Juanjo,

  The new header file src/c/features.h appears to break builds on Linux.
Indeed, on many linux distributions there already exists a header file
named feature.h.  In the ECL case, it looks like <stdlib.h> is picking 
the new (ECL) file as opposed of the (linux) system supplied header.
This is on openSUSE-11.2.  The exact error is:

In file included from /usr/include/stdlib.h:25,
                 from /home/gdr/src/ecl.cvs/src/c/dpp.c:71:
/home/gdr/src/ecl.cvs/src/c/features.h:18: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘static’
In file included from /home/gdr/src/ecl.cvs/src/c/dpp.c:71:
/usr/include/stdlib.h:96: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘__BEGIN_NAMESPACE_STD’
/usr/include/stdlib.h:140: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘extern’
/usr/include/stdlib.h:145: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘extern’


I would suggest to rename features.h as ecl-features.h.

-- Gaby







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