Re: build fails: ‘strerror’ is not a member of ‘gnulib’

[David Grundberg]

John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 25-Mar-2010, David Grundberg wrote:
>
> | 
> | I could have used <stdlib.h> instead of "stdlib.h", but I felt like 
> | using "" because the file is in the source tree.
>
> Yes, it may be today, but if we had a POSIX-compliant system, these
> standard headers would not need to be a part of Octave.
>   

Yes.

> | As for using <cstring>, this doesn't include gnulib's string.h for me.
> | 
> | Consider this example:
> | 
> | #include "config.h"
> | #include <cstring>
> | 
> | #ifdef WORK
> | // Include gnulib's string.h
> | #include <string.h>
> | #endif
> | 
> | int main ()
> | {
> |     gnulib::strerror (0);
> |     return 0;
> | }
> | 
> | Here it will not compile if WORK is undefined. (So this works: g++ 
> | gnulibtest.cc -I. -Ilibgnu -DWORK)
>
> What system are you using?  What version of g++?
>
> jwe

$uname -a
Linux ramona 2.6.28.10 #1 SMP Fri Aug 14 12:31:26 CEST 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
$cat /etc/debian_version
5.0.4
$g++ --version
g++ (Debian 4.3.2-1.1) 4.3.2
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This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

David