On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 9:16 AM, dkoleary <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi;
>
> Thanks for the reply. I tried to compile the simple program exactly as you
> had it and got the same errors:
>
> # gcc -o pt_test ./pt_test.c
> In file included from ./pt_test.c:1:
>
> /usr/include/pthread.h:666: error: expected ')' before '*' token
> /usr/include/pthread.h:669: error: expected ')' before '*' token
> [[snip]]
>
> /usr/include/pthread.h:710: error: expected ')' before '*' token
>
> I'm unsure how to proceed from here. Does that mean that gcc doesn't like
> the AIX headers? Would downloading a different version of gcc work? There
> are something like four AIX systems here, all 5.3, and none of them have a
> compiler purchased from IBM...
>
This is probably dumb, but look at the man page for one of the pthread
functions (like pthread_create). Maybe it lists the necessary
includes.
What other packages did you install? There have been a few AIX threads
where that information was provided, perhaps you can look through
those and compare.
> Any hint on how to proceed will be greatly appreciated.
>
Get a better OS. ;)
>
> On Tuesday, August 28, 2012 7:50:02 PM UTC-5, JB wrote:
>>
>> 1) pthreads_op.c calls pthread_create() and pthread_detach().
>> Find out which AIX library implements these functions, and the
>> corresponding header file should be included.
>>
>> 2) Judging from the error message below, I doubt if the system was
>> corrupted in some way
>> /usr/include/pthread.h:666: error: expected ')' before '*'
>> token
>>
>> Try compile the following simple program and see if it passes.
>> #include <pthread.h>
>> int main()
>> {
>> pthread_t lthread;
>> int ret = 0;
>>
>> return(ret);
>> }
>>
>
