Re: Can't use long long variables?

[Adam Fedor]

On Friday, February 27, 2004, at 05:43 PM, Fred Kiefer wrote:

> Manuel Guesdon wrote:
> > On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 08:34:52 +0100 Philip Mötteli 
> > <Philip.Moetteli@tele2.ch> wrote:
> >  >|  >| Am 27.02.2004 um 00:26 schrieb Chris B. Vetter:
> >  >| > This looks like a compiler (include) problem. You might want to 
> > try out
> >  >| > Manuel's suggestion and export -D_GNU_SOURCE before your run 
> > configure.
> >  >|  >| I did this, but I have the impression, this haven't given any 
> > more  >| information:
> >  >|  >| server:/usr/src/gnustep/core/base # env|grep CFLAGS
> >  >| CFLAGS=-D_GNU_SOURCE
> >  >| server:/usr/src/gnustep/core/base # pwd
> >  >| /usr/src/gnustep/core/base
> >  >| server:/usr/src/gnustep/core/base # env|grep CPPFLAGS
> >  >| CPPFLAGS=-D_GNU_SOURCE
> > ....
> >  >| checking whether precompiler handles LONG_LONG_MAX... yes
> > ...
> > Should be OK.
>
> Is there any way to include this setting into make? Up to now I always 
> took it for granted that my Suse Linux didn't have long long support 
> and never thought about it.

I don't know why it isn't automatically defined. From what I've read 
via google, if you need it, you should just define it.  Although I 
think we might have to think a little about the implications of 
defining it everywhere.  I'd prefer just to define it where it is 
needed.