Thanks, I realize that and best of all I have managed to solve the problem.
The Mandrake 8 CD from Linux Central came with a corrupt glibc-devel. I just
installed glibc-devel again and my problem is solved, compilation is done!
Arnab
> ----------
> From: Tzafrir Cohen[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 3:52 AM
> To: Arnab_Ganguly
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [expert] Cannot Compile using gcc-2.96: Header Problems
>
> On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Arnab_Ganguly wrote:
>
> > <<snapshot1.png>>
>
> Please avoid using snapshots of terminals
>
> 1. they take up a lot of space (that image was 49kb, compared to around
> 1kb of text)
> 2. I can't copy text from there to use it to search in places
>
> What you should do is to mark the text in the terminal window and paste it
> in your mailer, using the middle mouse button (in X whatever is marked is
> "copied", and "paste" is the middle mouse button. This is besides the
> seperate clipboards maintained by gnome, kde, netscape etc.), or paste it
> into a text editor and insert the produced text file into the text of your
> message.
>
> >
> > This is an appeal to all those in the mailing list who are experienced
> with
> > compilation using gcc-2.96. I have been trying unsuccessfully to compile
> > kdelibs2.2beta1 from sources. Each time I try, I end up with some "parse
> > error before xyz....." and the compilation fails. I have attached a
> sample
> > screenshot above so that there is no doubt about what the output of make
> is.
> >
> > This problem occurs with almost all compilations with the parse error
> coming
> > from /usr/include/netinet/in.h or some other such header file.
> >
> > I am using a Mandrake 8.0 system default install on an Intel 686
> machine,
> > 128 M of RAM. If someone could point out what is wrong, it would be
> great.
>
> Not sure exactly, maybe some -devel package missing. Or is it the problem
> with wrong linux headers? (/usr/include/linux points to the current kernel
> version tather than to the one against which glibc was linked)
>
> --
> Tzafrir Cohen
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir
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