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| I've had some problems for a while now, but always could go around them
| with ultrix 4.2 cc when needed. It's just that I would like to use gcc
| all the time so if someone could answer this I would appreciate it.
| 
| gcc 2.2.2 on ultrix 4.2 says this when making perl:
| 
| In file included from /usr/include/sys/param.h:305, from perl.h:138, from perly.c:38:
| /usr/include/sys/types.h:114: syntax error before `char'
| 
| The lines in /usr/include/sys/types.h looks like this:
| 
| 110	typedef
| 111	#ifdef __mips
| 112		signed
| 113	#endif /* __mips */
| 114			char	s_char;
| 
| What about it? Why is that an error?

What is happening is that the Ultrix include files now evidently
include the "signed" keyword.  You must have compiled perl with the
-traditional option, which forces gcc to disable the keywords
'signed', 'const', and 'volatile', since pre-ANSI compilers did not
support for them.  You could add:

	-Dsigned=__signed__

to the compile lines.

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