Re: configure problem on Solaris 2.5

Charles> I tried building 21.0-b57 on a Sparcstation 4 running SunOS 5.5.1 Charles> There is apparently no check in the configure script for "ptrdiff_t". Charles> This type is defined in /usr/include/stddef.h, but this header file Charles> is not getting included anywhere, and the compilation bombs out. Charles> Manually sticking "#define ptrdiff_t int" into config.h made it possible Charles> to compile XEmacs on this platform. Charles> SunOS spooky 5.5.1 Generic_103640-08 sun4m sparc SUNW,SPARCstation-4 Charles> gcc --version Charles> 2.8.1 I don't understand how this could happen. All ANSI C platforms have ptrdiff_t, and it's supposed to live in stddef.h. It's hard to believe only gcc + sunos5.5.1 would have this problem. My upcoming mega-patch will add #include <stddef.h> for bytecode.c, elhash.c, and opaque.c, for offsetof() and ptrdiff_t. It's the compiler's responsibility, not the operating system's, to provide the stddef.h header. There's a good chance your gcc was not built on exactly the same level of the OS as you're running it. gcc is quite sensitive to mixing OS levels, more so than any other GNU program. Martin