Issues with stdio.h

JonY jon_y@users.sourceforge.net
Mon Feb 20 22:12:00 GMT 2012


On 2/21/2012 05:39, Thomas Wolff wrote:
> Am 20.02.2012 01:25, schrieb Christopher Faylor:
>> On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 07:07:04PM -0500, Chris Sutcliffe wrote:
>>> ...
>>> /usr/include/stdio.h:34:20: fatal error: stddef.h: No such file or
>>> directory
>> stddef.h comes from the gcc4-core package.  It's located in:
>>
>> usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.5.3/include/stddef.h
>>
>> and should be found automatically by the compiler.
> I think it's a weird setup that an include file referred from
> /usr/include is not found in that location but well hidden in
> installation-specific directories. Not the usual setup anyway. Also
> uncomfortable for people who want to check include files manually.
> Please consider to change this (gcc maintainer?).
> Thomas
> 

So how are you supposed to use headers provided by the compiler anyway
without going into that compiler specific directory?

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