Re: solution for Making glib 2.00, 2.02

[Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann <mne mosaic-ag com>]

On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 11:14:36AM +0200, Matthijs van Henten wrote:
> Hello,
> I just wanted to report the following (little) thing I ran into when doing
> 'make' for glib2.00 and 2.02:
> 
> 'make' broke off w following error:
> 
> Making all in libcharset
> make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/temp/glib-2.0.0/glib/libcharset'
> make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/temp/glib-2.0.0/glib/libcharset'
> make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/temp/glib-2.0.0/glib'
> /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I..
> -DG_LOG_DOMAIN=\"GLib\" -DG_DISABLE_DEPRECATED -DGLIB_COMPILATION     -g
> -O2 -Wall -D_REENTRANT -c giounix.c
> gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I.. -DG_LOG_DOMAIN=\"GLib\"
> -DG_DISABLE_DEPRECATED -DGLIB_COMPILATION -g -O2 -Wall -D_REENTRANT -c
> giounix.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o giounix.o
> giounix.c: In function `g_io_unix_read':
> giounix.c:181: `SSIZE_MAX' undeclared (first use in this function)
> giounix.c:181: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> giounix.c:181: for each function it appears in.)
> make[3]: *** [giounix.lo] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/temp/glib-2.0.0/glib'
> make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/temp/glib-2.0.0/glib'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/temp/glib-2.0.0'
> make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
> 
> I solved it by adding
> 
> "#include <bits/posix1_lim.h>"

the file bits/posix1_lim.h is linux specific; one should always use
#include <limits.h>

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Owen,

if glib defines gssize it should also define SSIZE_MAX, if not yet
present

best regards,
-- 
Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann

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