[csw-maintainers] Use of <stdbool.h> is valid only in a c99 compilation environment.

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Romeo,

Am 08.07.2012 um 13:39 schrieb Romeo Theriault:
> Hello, I'm trying to build a python package called msgpack-python.
> There are some parts in C that are compiled during the build. Using
> the the Sun 'cc' I get this error when building it:
> 
> "/usr/include/stdbool.h", line 42: #error: "Use of <stdbool.h> is
> valid only in a c99 compilation environment."
> 
> I've googled extensively and have tried piles of different
> "EXTRA_CFLAGS" (e.g.-std=c99, -xc99=all, -D_STDC_C99 ) but to no
> avail. I can't seem to get past this. Does anyone have any suggestion
> on how I might work past this problem?

First guess: make sure the flags actually make it to the compiler invocation.
If in doubt please commit what you have so I can have a look.

> I also tried building the package against gcc and I get this error:
> 
> gcc-4.7: error: language code=pic32 not recognized
> 
> which I believe is because python was built against the sun 'cc'
> compiler. If I manually remove that pic32 CFLAG the package compiles
> successfully. Assuming I can't get the program to build against sun's
> C compiler, how can I exclude the "pic32" CFLAG so I can get the
> package to build against gcc?

This is probably added during configure-time, so there is probably not
an easy answer besides "find where it is added and remove it".


Best regards

  -- Dago