Re: [TuxKart-users] I have a compilation problem(corection)

[al <al...@te...>]

Steve Baker wrote:
> 
> al wrote:
> >
> > Mandrake 7.1
> > Glide_V3-2.60.15-3mdk.rpm & devel rpm
> > Mesa3.2(compiled from source)
> > plib-1.2.0-i586.rpm (NOT source)
> > freeglut-alpha-1.3(source)
> > VooDoo3 1000 AGP
> 
> ...
> 
> > /usr/include/plib/sg.h:842: `FLT_MAX' undeclared (first use this
> > function)
> 
> SHORT ANSWER:
> 
>   Well, I'm guessing that the short answer is to hack in:
> 
>       #include <float.h>
> 
>   ...into PLIB's src/sg.h, to re-build and re-install PLIB, and then
>   to try again...but that doesn't compile on my Linux box.
> 

this doesn't work for me either
plib doesn't compile with or without the sg.h edit, I installed a
bin rpm


> LONG ANSWER:
> 
>   OK - I'm officially confused.
> 
>   1)  I always used to use 'math.h' which defined FLT_MAX.
>       /usr/include/math.h *uses* FLT_MAX - so that ought to be OK.
> 
>   2)  That stopped working in a recent release - because it's
>       actually defined in 'float.h' which has ceased to exist
>       (at least under SuSE Linux 6.4).
> 
>   3)  At the top of 'values.h' it says:
> 
>       /*
>         This interface is obsolete.  New programs should use
>         <limits.h> and/or <float.h> instead of <values.h>. */
> 
>       ...but float.h has 'gone away' and 'limits.h' doesn't
>       define it either.
> 
>   4)  At the end of 'limits.h', it says this:
> 
>       #if defined __GNUC__ && !defined _GCC_LIMITS_H_
>       /* `_GCC_LIMITS_H_' is what GCC's file defines.  */
>       # include_next <limits.h>
>       #endif
> 
>       What the heck is '#include_next' ??!?
> 
> Aaaarrrggghhhhh!!!!
> 
> Anyway, somehow (despite FLT_MAX not being defined in ANY header file
> I can find), my code compiles without <float.h>  ... I suspect that
> these tokens are perhaps hard-coded into the C/C++ compiler so that
> cross-compilation can work or something like that.
> 


this sounds like it makes sense
but since I am not a programmer
that dont mean much :)

thanks
aal