[PD] compiling pd-extended on arch linux

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Wed, 7 Jul 2010, Martin Peach wrote:

> No, they are preprocessor directives that go in a .c file. But you 
> should not have to change the source code to get it to compile. 
> Something else is wrong.

Typically, what is wrong, is that on some OSes and some versions of OSes, 
some #includes are invoked from some other #includes, in a way that may 
cause fstat() (for example) to be accidentally visible, when you're 
supposed to have to say #include <sys/stat.h>.

And yes, S_ISCHR is really in <linux/stat.h>. This choice of a different 
header is typically for things that are so OS-specific, that you wouldn't 
be able to use it if you used versions of the same tools (Free Software 
Foundation's) on any other OS ; whereas extensions that were added by Free 
Software Foundation in a way usable on OSX and Windows, would end up in 
the main header, and not the linux header.

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