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Solving System Headers Problems When Using sunfreeware.com’s GCC

Posted in Errors, Software, Solaris, Sysadmin by Rami on the August 9th, 2006

When getting an error like:

In file included from /usr/include/sys/signal.h:34,
from /usr/include/signal.h:26,
from /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.7/sun4-solaris/CORE/unixish.h:106,
from /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.7/sun4-solaris/CORE/perl.h:2220,
from u32align.c:10:
/usr/include/sys/siginfo.h:259: error: parse error before “ctid_t”
/usr/include/sys/siginfo.h:292: error: parse error before ‘}’ token
/usr/include/sys/siginfo.h:294: error: parse error before ‘}’ token
/usr/include/sys/siginfo.h:390: error: parse error before “ctid_t”
/usr/include/sys/siginfo.h:392: error: conflicting types for `__proc’
/usr/include/sys/siginfo.h:261: error: previous declaration of `__proc’
/usr/include/sys/siginfo.h:398: error: conflicting types for `__fault’
/usr/include/sys/siginfo.h:267: error: previous declaration of `__fault’
/usr/include/sys/siginfo.h:404: error: conflicting types for `__file’
/usr/include/sys/siginfo.h:273: error: previous declaration of `__file’
/usr/include/sys/siginfo.h:420: error: conflicting types for `__prof’
/usr/include/sys/siginfo.h:287: error: previous declaration of `__prof’
/usr/include/sys/siginfo.h:424: error: conflicting types for `__rctl’
/usr/include/sys/siginfo.h:291: error: previous declaration of `__rctl’
/usr/include/sys/siginfo.h:426: error: parse error before ‘}’ token
/usr/include/sys/siginfo.h:428: error: parse error before ‘}’ token
/usr/include/sys/siginfo.h:432: error: parse error before “k_siginfo_t”
/usr/include/sys/siginfo.h:437: error: parse error before ‘}’ token

It’s possible to solve the problem using:

cd /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.10/3.3.2/install-tools
./mkheaders