Brian Dessent wrote: > > I'm not sure that's valid. I meant edit the taucs.h header so that the > block encloses declarations. If you try to wrap the entire header like > that then it will apply to everything recursively that the header itself > includes, which leads to the kind of error you're seeing where you've > got a C++ header being interpreted as C, though I'm not sure how a C > library header ends up including C++ headers. hmm .. I will have to look into. Not a pleasant task I might say. >> Somebody at comp.lang.c++ pointed out that I should not need to enclose >> the header as shown above, the library should take care of that by itself. > > Yes, this is a defect of the library's design. It would appear that its > authors never intended for it to be used from/with a C++ compiler, so > another alternative would be to rename your file to have a .c extension > and compile with gcc. Yes, this I have already tried. I again again get tons of errors, I think similar to the earlier ones I reported ... I could be wrong though. Here are the command run for the compilation: $> make -n gcc -g -Wall -c -ansi -Wno-deprecated -I./ -I/home/hs/tmp/taucs/build/linux -I/home/hs/tmp/taucs/src spmat.cc -o spmat.o gcc spmat.o -o spmat /home/hs/tmp/taucs/lib/linux/libtaucs.a -L/home/hs/tmp/taucs/lib/linux -ltaucs -L/home/hs/tmp/taucs/external/lib/linux -latlas -llapack -lf77blas -lcblas -latlas -lmetis -lm -lg2c Here is a sample output from the above commands: /usr/include/c++/4.1.3/complex:529: error: template with C linkage /usr/include/c++/4.1.3/complex:534: error: template with C linkage /usr/include/c++/4.1.3/complex:539: error: template with C linkage /usr/include/c++/4.1.3/complex:544: error: template with C linkage /usr/include/c++/4.1.3/complex:550: error: template with C linkage /usr/include/c++/4.1.3/complex: In function ‘double std::__complex_abs(double __complex__)’: /usr/include/c++/4.1.3/complex:569: error: declaration of C function ‘double std::__complex_abs(double __complex__)’ conflicts with /usr/include/c++/4.1.3/complex:566: error: previous declaration ‘float std::__complex_abs(float __complex__)’ here /usr/include/c++/4.1.3/complex: In function ‘long double std::__complex_abs(const long double __complex__&)’: /usr/include/c++/4.1.3/complex:572: error: declaration of C function ‘long double std::__complex_abs(const long double __complex__&)’ conflicts with /usr/include/c++/4.1.3/complex:569: error: previous declaration ‘double std::__complex_abs(double __complex__)’ here /usr/include/c++/4.1.3/complex: At global scope: /usr/include/c++/4.1.3/complex:575: error: template with C linkage /usr/include/c++/4.1.3/complex:586: error: template with C linkage /usr/include/c++/4.1.3/complex: In function ‘double std::__complex_arg(double __complex__)’: /usr/include/c++/4.1.3/complex:596: error: declaration of C function ‘double std::__complex_arg(double __complex__)’ conflicts with /usr/include/c++/4.1.3/complex:593: error: previous declaration ‘float std::__complex_arg(float __complex__)’ here /usr/include/c++/4.1.3/complex: In function ‘long double std::__complex_arg(const long double __complex__&)’: /usr/include/c++/4.1.3/complex:599: error: declaration of C function ‘long double std::__complex_arg(const long double __complex__&)’ conflicts with /usr/include/c++/4.1.3/complex:596: error: previous declaration ‘double std::__complex_arg(double __complex__)’ here /usr/include/c++/4.1.3/complex: At global scope: /usr/include/c++/4.1.3/complex:602: error: template with C linkage /usr/include/c++/4.1.3/complex:616: error: template with C linkage /usr/include/c++/4.1.3/complex:628: error: template specialization with C linkage hmm ... what do I do next? thanks, ->HS > Brian >
