Bug 10021

Summary: [makedepend] complains of being unable to find stddef.h, stdarg.h and others
Product: xorg Reporter: Brice Goglin <brice.goglin>
Component: Build/MonolithicAssignee: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: lowest CC: jeremyhu
Version: 7.2 (2007.02)   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
URL: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=257142
Whiteboard: 2011BRB_Reviewed
i915 platform: i915 features:

Description Brice Goglin 2007-02-18 08:59:02 UTC
Bug reported 2,5 years ago on the Debian BTS by Fred Jean, still applies.

  #include <stdio.h>
  void main(void) {
    printf("Hello World!\n");
  }
and then
  $ makedepends -f- hello.c
makedepend: warning:  prout.c (reading /usr/include/stdio.h, line 34): cannot find include file "stddef.h"
        not in /usr/include/stddef.h
makedepend: warning:  prout.c (reading /usr/include/bits/types.h, line 31): cannot find include file "stddef.h"
        not in /usr/include/stddef.h
makedepend: warning:  prout.c (reading /usr/include/_G_config.h, line 14): cannot find include file "stddef.h"
        not in /usr/include/stddef.h
makedepend: warning:  prout.c (reading /usr/include/wchar.h, line 48): cannot find include file "stddef.h"
        not in /usr/include/stddef.h
makedepend: warning:  prout.c (reading /usr/include/gconv.h, line 31): cannot find include file "stddef.h"
        not in /usr/include/stddef.h
makedepend: warning:  prout.c (reading /usr/include/libio.h, line 53): cannot find include file "stdarg.h"
        not in /usr/include/stdarg.h

It has been claimed in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=257142;msg=35 that it was caused by makedepend hardcoding gcc lib path at compile time, but I can't cofirm this.
Comment 1 Daniel Stone 2007-02-27 01:36:31 UTC
Sorry about the phenomenal bug spam, guys.  Adding xorg-team@ to the QA contact so bugs don't get lost in future.
Comment 2 Pauli Sundberg 2010-11-19 02:38:44 UTC
I hit this bug while running Ubuntu 10.10.

Downloaded and built "makedepend-1.0.2" that did not help.

What did help was to add
"#define __UNIXOS2__ 1" to makedepend-config.h 

recompile and install, and before running it exporting enviromental variable with proper include paths, for example:

export C_INCLUDE_PATH="/usr/include/;/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.1/include/"

The 1.0.2 makedepend without any modifications searched only /usr/include path (+parameter specified).
Comment 3 Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia 2011-10-09 03:11:01 UTC
If you want to submit a patch to add this support, we'll certainly consider it, 
but nobody really cares about makedepend any more since we migrated away from 
that build system...
Comment 4 Adam Jackson 2018-06-12 19:10:53 UTC
Mass closure: This bug has been untouched for more than six years, and is not
obviously still valid. Please reopen this bug or file a new report if you continue to experience issues with current releases.

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