gcc-2.7.2.1 [was: Compile problem - libdb]

[David Relson]

On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 04:45:47 +0100
Matthias Andree <matthias.andree at gmx.de> wrote:

> On Sun, 18 Jan 2004, David Relson wrote:
> 
> > You're making progress.  You compiler is on the old side, but the
> > problem is more in the header files.  The good news is that the fix
> > is easy (I think).  Add the following three lines before the last
> > non-empty line in file src/system.h
> > 
> > #ifndef	__attribute__
> > #define	__attribute__(x)
> > #endif
> 
> This is not working, you could write #if 1 instead of the #ifndef.
> 
> #ifdef __attribute__
> #warning "first branch, use attributes"
> #else
> #warning "no attributes"
> #endif
> 
> results in "no attributes" on GCC 3.3.1.
> 
> This should be #ifndef __GNUC__ instead, as we assume GNUC
> __attribute__s.

The user in question has gcc-2.7.2.1  Possibly "#if !__GNUC_PREREQ (2,
8)", or similar, would be appropriate.