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From: "Donald J . Maddox" <dmaddox@sc.rr.com>
Subject: Re: ports/23007: /usr/include/stdbool.h broken
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The following reply was made to PR ports/23007; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Donald J . Maddox" <dmaddox@sc.rr.com>
To: justin.kolodziej@marquette.edu
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: ports/23007: /usr/include/stdbool.h broken
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 12:28:42 -0500

 I submitted a PR on this same problem about a week ago...  The only committer
 who has responded was Bruce Evans, who pointed out that this file is even more
 broken than I initially thought.  He, however, deferred the fix to the author
 who has not expressed any interest in the issue thus far :(
 
 On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 09:14:12AM -0800, justin.kolodziej@marquette.edu wrote:
 > 
 > >Number:         23007
 > >Category:       ports
 > >Synopsis:       /usr/include/stdbool.h broken
 > >Confidential:   no
 > >Severity:       non-critical
 > >Priority:       medium
 > >Responsible:    freebsd-ports
 > >State:          open
 > >Quarter:        
 > >Keywords:       
 > >Date-Required:
 > >Class:          sw-bug
 > >Submitter-Id:   current-users
 > >Arrival-Date:   Tue Nov 21 09:20:00 PST 2000
 > >Closed-Date:
 > >Last-Modified:
 > >Originator:     Justin A. Kolodziej
 > >Release:        5.0-20001119-CURRENT
 > >Organization:
 > Marquette University
 > >Environment:
 > FreeBSD kolodziejj.tower.mu.edu 5.0-20001119-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-20001119-CURRENT #0: Sun Nov 19 14:07:24 GMT 2000     root@usw2.freebsd.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC  i386
 > 
 > >Description:
 > The /usr/include/stdbool.h header file is wrong if the compiler doesn't 
 > set __STDC_VERSION_ to something less than  199901.  It defines _Bool 
 > twice and kills the compile.
 > >How-To-Repeat:
 > cd /usr/ports/print/a2ps
 > make install
 > 
 > >Fix:
 > I guess if the compiler isn't ANSI C99, then use 
 > 
 > typedef int _Bool;
 > #define true 1
 > #define false 0
 > 
 > otherwise use the C99 enum typedef and defines.
 > 
 > Or perhaps throw the offending bit out and use the C99 stuff for all 
 > compilers.
 > 
 > >Release-Note:
 > >Audit-Trail:
 > >Unformatted:
 > 
 > 
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