[Coin-bcpdiscuss] Re: [Coin-discuss] Compile BCP 1.0 on SunOS 5.10

[Lou Hafer]

Dan,

	You can see what's going wrong if you look in CoinSignal.hpp at the
indicated lines (98--101). You've reached the end of the file and 
CoinSighandler_t is not yet defined. At this point, the #warning directives
are trying to warn you that a default signal handler definition will be used.
However, the compile command contains the option --pendantic-errors, which means 
that compiler warnings will be interpreted as errors. So, after the compiler 
warns you that #warn is a GCC extension, it declares an error and aborts.

	But ... that doesn't really help. The real question is why the 
declaration at line 82 is not reached. Given your environment (using g++ under 
Solaris 10) the symbols __sparc, __sun, and __GNUC__ should be defined.
	
	I've tried a build using GCC with Solaris 8, and I get no errors at all.

	I can't do a full build with GCC on Solaris 10 because there are some
serious problems with the installation here.  I've sent a gripe to our systems
folks.  In the meantime, I was able to do a test with just CoinSignal.hpp and as
far as I can see, __sparc, __sun, and __GNUC__ are defined.  These symbols are
normally defined by the compiler, so it's hard to see why they're not present.
Which is to say, I can't duplicate your error.  So I'm at a bit of a loss.  I'll
try again once our systems folks provide me with a working GCC installation.

							Lou