Re: [Plib-devel] [Fwd: [TuxKart-users] I have a compilation problem]

[Bernie B. <bb...@bi...>]

Steve Baker wrote:
> 
> Norman Vine wrote:
> >
> > Steve Baker writes:
> > >>
> > >
> > >> /usr/include/plib/sg.h:842: `FLT_MAX' undeclared (first use
> > >this function)
> > >
> > >...
[snip]
> >
> > Steve,
> >
> > I went through this torment of not seeing  float.h when I first started
> > using gcc.  Then one day I noticed that a program was complaining
> > about conflicting with <float.h>  after much searching I finally found
> > it hiding in
> >
> > / lib / gcc-lib / i686-pc-cygwin / 2.95.2 / include
> >
[snip]
> 
> Yep - that make sense - so the compiler should know where the
> magic include directory is.  In your case it knows to look
> in i686-pc-cygwin/2.95.2 - and in my case, it knows about
> 
> /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-suse-linux/2.95.2/include/float.h
> 
> ...but how does it know that this is a SuSE Linux machine?
> 
> Our friend over on TuxKart-users (who is unfortunately
> not a programmer) is getting complaints that you and I
> don't see.
> 
> Perhaps this is a screwup in the Mandrake distro?
> 
> I hope not.
> 
> Are there any Mandrake users listening who could
> check this out?

Under my Mandrake 7.1 installation <float.h> is
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux/2.95.3/include/float.h.  Just
updated my CVS source and it compiles fine.

Bernie