Re: Turn on posix directory for RTEMS

[Joel Sherrill <joel dot sherrill at oarcorp dot com>]

Jeff Johnston wrote:
> Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>   
> > On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 17:07 -0500, Jeff Johnston wrote:
> >   
> >     
> > > Joel Sherrill wrote:
> > >     
> > >       
> > > > Hi Jeff,
> > > >
> > > > You and I discussed this a week or two ago and here
> > > > is the patch.  We had stubs for the exec* routines and
> > > > a copy of the *dir routines from around newlib 1.8.
> > > > After this is merged and Ralf turns the crank for
> > > > new RTEMS gcc/newlib RPMs with this, we can
> > > > delete some files from RTEMS.  :)
> > > >
> > > > 2008-11-05  Joel Sherrill <joel.sherrill@oarcorp.com>
> > > >
> > > >    * configure.host: RTEMS now uses posix subdirectory.
> > > >
> > > >       
> > > >         
> > > Patch checked in.  Sorry for the delay.
> > >     
> > >       
> > With this patch applied, I am not able to build any rtems-toolchain (!)
> > anymore:
> >
> > ...
> > In file included
> > from /builddir/build/BUILD/rtems-4.10-bfin-rtems4.10-gcc-4.3.2/gcc-4.3.2/newlib/libc/include/stdio.h:34,
> >
> > from ../../../../../gcc-4.3.2/newlib/libc/posix/rune.h:40,
> >
> > from ../../../../../gcc-4.3.2/newlib/libc/posix/collate.c:31:
> > /builddir/build/BUILD/rtems-4.10-bfin-rtems4.10-gcc-4.3.2/build/./gcc/include/stddef.h:214: error: conflicting types for 'size_t'
> > ../../../../../gcc-4.3.2/newlib/libc/posix/runetype.h:54: error:
> > previous declaration of 'size_t' was here
> >
> >
> > AFAIS, this code suffers from its BSD-heritage, so I worked around it by
> > replacing the BSD-types in runetype.h with POSIX/susv3-types from
> > stddef.h.
> >
> > Corresponding patch enclosed below.
> >
> > Ralf
> >
> >   
> >     
> Patch checked in.
>   
Ralf mentioned this build failure to me offline but I never could
get this failure to happen.  I am building with gcc SVN trunk but
I don't see how that would help.

Any ideas on what might be the difference? 

Not that it matters much.  This is the right solution.
> -- Jeff J.
>   


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