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From: jit@SLIC.CELLBIO.DUKE.EDU (Jit Keong Tan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Help with building gcc
Message-ID: <9012191647.AA00526@slic.cellbio.duke.edu>
Date: 19 Dec 90 16:47:52 GMT
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=> cc -c -g   -I. -I../gcc-1.37.1 -I../gcc-1.37.1/config ../gcc-1.37.1/symout.c
=> ccom: Error: ../gcc-1.37.1/stddef.h, line 12: illegal type combination
=>       typedef unsigned long size_t;
=>       ----------------------------^
=> *** Error code 1

Are you using IRIX 3.2 ?

I think the problem is you have declared size_t twice.
The header files in IRIX 3.3 have added the #if conditional 
compile statement so that you can't typedef the size_t twice.
(Of course the error messages don't mean anything.)

Look in to the stddef.h itself, it #define _SIZE_T_ , so is the
header file in IRIX 3.3.  As I recall, this #define _SIZE_T_
statement wasn't appeared in 3.2.  

So, the only way is, not to include this statement at all, or edit
the /usr/include/sys/types.h (or whereever it appears) to make to
#define _SIZE_T_ as it does in stddef.h


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