Re: [Plib-users] PLIB 1.3.3 compilation

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

Steve Wendt wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 20 Jun 2001 02:37:11 -0500, Steve Baker wrote:
> 
> >Code rot. 1.3.1 compiled OK on the day it was released.  :-)
> 
> I wouldn't say that... I recall having to make a couple fixes:
> 1) adding #include <blah> a few places
> 2) getting a makefile created for ssgaux
> 
> But that's ancient history now.  :)

Sorry - I *should* have said:

  "1.3.1 compiled OK on the day it was released - but not
   necessarily on the day after!"

   :-)

...the screwed up include file seems to have come about because
some GCC person moved the definition of FLT_MAX from one header
file to another...in some distributions and not others.  Probably
in response to some ANSI C standard or something.  That sort of
thing happens a lot - we just had the case of the definition of
the 'time()' function being moved from <sys/time.h> to just <time.h>,
which is pretty logical - except that a bunch of other time-related
things (such as gettimeofday) stayed in <sys/time.h> - that little
'gotcha' showed up in Mandrake 8.0 - and so far, nowhere else?!?

The missing Makefile *was* an oversight - but then ssgAux was pretty
new when 1.3.1 appeared.

Ah - the joys of odd-numbered releases!

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