Re: PSPP-BUG: PSPP make check errors

[John Darrington]

This is strange.   It looks almost like a problem with your standard C library.
What standard C library do you have installed? and what version?

What do you see immediately before line 48 in /usr/include/stdio.h ?

J'

On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 03:19:36PM +0000, Ruth Waite wrote:
     Please see attached errors when attempting to install PSPP on Oracle Linux 
Server 7.8.
     
     Thank you for your attention to this matter.

     ad3658@cus-survox1 pspp-1.4.0]$ clear
     [ad3658@cus-survox1 pspp-1.4.0]$ make check
     make  check-recursive
     make[1]: Entering directory `/home/ad/ad36/ad3658/Downloads/pspp-1.4.0'
     Making check in gl
     make[2]: Entering directory `/home/ad/ad36/ad3658/Downloads/pspp-1.4.0/gl'
     make  check-recursive
     make[3]: Entering directory `/home/ad/ad36/ad3658/Downloads/pspp-1.4.0/gl'
     make[4]: Entering directory `/home/ad/ad36/ad3658/Downloads/pspp-1.4.0/gl'
     depbase=`echo fopen.lo | sed 's|[^/]*$|.deps/&|;s|\.lo$||'`;\
     /bin/sh ../libtool  --tag=CC   --mode=compile gcc -std=gnu11 
-DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DEXEEXT=\"\" -I. -I..     -g -O2 -MT fopen.lo -MD -MP -MF 
$depbase.Tpo -c -o fopen.lo fopen.c &&\
     mv -f $depbase.Tpo $depbase.Plo
     libtool: compile:  gcc -std=gnu11 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DEXEEXT=\"\" -I. -I.. 
-g -O2 -MT fopen.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/fopen.Tpo -c fopen.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o 
.libs/fopen.o
     In file included from ./stdio.h:33:0,
                      from fopen.c:26:
     /usr/include/stdio.h:48:1: error: expected ???=???, ???,???, ???;???, 
???asm??? or ???__attribute__??? before ???typedef???
      typedef struct _IO_FILE FILE;
      ^
     fopen.c:29:1: error: expected ???=???, ???,???, ???;???, ???asm??? or 
???__attribute__??? before ???static???
      static FILE *