[Matplotlib-users] Build failure of SVN8415 on Solaris 10 SPARC

[Dr. D. K. <dav...@on...>]

The latest stable (0.99.3) matplotlib builds ok on Solaris 10 03/05 on SPARC.

However, your latest trunc release has some useful fixes, so it was downloaded 
by a fellow Sage devloper. However, when I try to build this version on a Sun 
Blade 1000 running Solaris 10 03/05, it presents a problem:

/usr/include/stdlib.h:144: error: declaration of C function 'void swab(const 
char*, char*, ssize_t)' conflicts with
/usr/include/unistd.h:480: error: previous declaration 'void swab(const void*, 
void*, ssize_t)' here
error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1
Error building matplotlib package.


There are two declarations of 'swab' in the Solaris header files, and what one 
you get depends on the compilation mode. The reasons are explained in the 
Solaris header files.

The issue is traced at

http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/9202

where you will see the full error message and attachments of the header files.

For this, gcc 4.4.4 was used.

Dave