[tlbuild] error in zziplib source

[George N. White III]

On 21 July 2017 at 08:17, George N. White III <gnwiii at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On 20 July 2017 at 18:42, Juan Bosco García Gutiérrez <juan.bosco at uca.es>
> wrote:
>
>> El día 20 jul 2017 20:28, "George N. White III" <gnwiii at gmail.com>
>> escribió:
>>
>> The zzip/types.h file has a comment:
>>
>> * This file is usually the first to define some real symbols. If you do
>>
>> * see some errors here then it is most likely the includepath is wrong
>>
>> * or some includeheader is missing / unreadable on your system.
>>
>> * (a) we include local headers with a "zzip/" prefix just to be sure
>>
>> * to not actually get the wrong one. Consider to add `-I..` somewhere
>>
>> * and especially VC/IDE users (who make up their own workspace files)
>>
>> * should include the root source directory of this project.
>>
>> * (b) size_t and ssize_t are sometimes found be `configure` but they are
>>
>> * not in the usual places (ANSI C = stddef.h; UNIX = sys/types.h), so
>>
>> * be sure to look for them and add the respective header as an #include.
>>
>> Oh, sorry, I didn't read that. However, I have test with a sample c
>> program and
>>
>> I have ssize_t type defined in <stddef.h>, which compile without errors
>> with only
>>
>> gcc command, and off64_t can be fixed with '-Doff64_t=__off64_t'. So I
>> don't know
>>
>> why doesn't work in zziplib source. Also, in order to check I have
>> included
>>
>> '-I/usr/include' (where stddef.h is defined) at CFLAGS and the same
>> errors are found.
>>
>> Any other idea of the problem?
>>
>> You should mention the linux distro and whether your gcc-6.3.0 is from a
>> dristro package or
>>
>> locally compiled (in which case you may need to adjust include paths).
>>
>> Void Linux is the Linux distribution with gcc from the distro package.
>>
>> Thank you for your help George.
>>
>> Bosco.
>>
> I have gcc-6.3.0 on Ubuntu 14.04 from ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test. It can
> build
> zziplib-0.13.66 from source without problems.
>

TL2017 builds from source on Ubuntu 16.04 with gcc-6 (Ubuntu/Linaro
6.3.0-18ubuntu2~16.04) 6.3.0 20170519.


> Try building zziplib outside TL2017. If that fails you should have a look
> at the stddef.h changes in
>
> https://github.com/voidlinux/void-packages/blob/master/
> srcpkgs/gcc/files/gcc-6.3.0-musl.diff
>
> I assume you are building TL2017 for use on Void Linux.  In that case you
> might want to
> build TL using system libraries where possible (since Void is a rolling
> distro, some may be
> too new for TL2017).
>
>
>
> --
> George N. White III <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca>
> Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia
>



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George N. White III <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca>
Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia
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