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

Romeo Theriault romeotheriault at opencsw.org
Mon Jul 9 08:24:29 CEST 2012


On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 4:28 AM, Sebastian Kayser <skayser at opencsw.org> wrote:
> I am not too familiar with the c99 details, but if changing the flags is
> actually the cure to your problem, here's what I'd do. The error message
> looks like it's emitted by the preprocessor invocation which can be
> tweaked with EXTRA_CPPFLAGS (EXTRA_CFLAGS is passed to the compiler
> only). Using that should already give you better results. You can use
> "mgar modenv" to verify the invocation flags without actually running
> the build.
>
> For how exactly to tweak the flags. Usually there's a good chance that
> other people have already run into a similar problem and have solved it.
> Try searching the existing build recipes for "99", maybe that gives you
> the solution right away.


Thank you Sebastian and Dago both, for your suggestions. I've not had
a chance to look at this again but you've both given me more to look
into. I'll follow up on this thread once I've had some more time to
play with this.

Thanks,
Romeo


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