[Xcb] xcb does not compile on solaris 8

Jamey Sharp jamey at minilop.net
Mon Nov 5 13:26:49 PST 2007


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On 11/5/07, Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at sun.com> wrote:
> On Solaris 8 at least, #include <inttypes.h> provides the types from a
> 1996 draft of what became C99:

We understood that. I clearly asked the wrong question. :-)

How are people expected to detect that their code is being compiled in a
version of Solaris that's too old to have stdint.h?

If the answer is "use autoconf", that's fine--we now have a plan for
doing that.

> I'm not sure how far back that goes in Solaris releases.  Generally,
> people aren't expected to be able to compile programs with C99
> features on Solaris releases prior to Solaris 10.

Fair enough. :-)

Jamey
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