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Re: Issues with stdio.h
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 04:57:20PM -0600, Robert Miles wrote:
>On 2/20/2012 4:12 PM, JonY wrote:
>> On 2/21/2012 05:39, Thomas Wolff wrote:
>>> Am 20.02.2012 01:25, schrieb Christopher Faylor:
>>>> On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 07:07:04PM -0500, Chris Sutcliffe wrote:
>>>>> ...
>>>>> /usr/include/stdio.h:34:20: fatal error: stddef.h: No such file or
>>>>> directory
>>>> stddef.h comes from the gcc4-core package. It's located in:
>>>>
>>>> usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.5.3/include/stddef.h
>>>>
>>>> and should be found automatically by the compiler.
>>> I think it's a weird setup that an include file referred from
>>> /usr/include is not found in that location but well hidden in
>>> installation-specific directories. Not the usual setup anyway. Also
>>> uncomfortable for people who want to check include files manually.
>>> Please consider to change this (gcc maintainer?).
>>> Thomas
>>>
>> So how are you supposed to use headers provided by the compiler anyway
>> without going into that compiler specific directory?
>>
>Why not put a stddef.h file into /user/include that includes comments
>showing where to find the compiler-specific stddef.h files? And if
>putting it there makes the compiler try to use it instead of the
>compiler-specific one, also add the code needed to tell the compiler to
>include the compiler-specific one, after checking which compiler is
>currently in use.
It appears that we have a few here who are not familiar with Linux
and/or gcc. That's not terribly surprising but if you're not familiar
with the way gcc lays things out then this is really not the place to
express consternation. If we *didn't* set things up like Linux that
would actually be a bug.
So, no, we're not going to include versions of gcc's header files in
/usr/include because that's where you want to look for things. You can
see the directories that gcc searches by adding a '-v' to your compile
line. The include search path that is then printed will be your clue
for where to look for header files.
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