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To: frank <f.callaghan@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: 7.0RC2 compile error ! 
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Comments: In-reply-to frank <f.callaghan@ieee.org>
	message dated "Wed, 03 May 2000 11:03:10 -0400"
Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 12:15:04 -0400
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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
X-Archive-Number: 200005/165

frank <f.callaghan@ieee.org> writes:
>>>> Configuration details: did you feed ./configure any special switches?
>> 
>> The output of configure would also be interesting.  Also, I've forgotten
>> exactly what the error messages you got were?  (Time for another whine
>> about the sad state of the pghackers archives :-()

>> In file included from pgconnection.cc:18:
>> pgconnection.h:84: syntax error before `('
>> pgconnection.cc:116: syntax error before `::'

OK, both of those are pointing at uses of datatype "string".  I suspect
that this code near the head of pgconnection.h is failing to fire:

#ifdef HAVE_CXX_STRING_HEADER
#include <string>
#endif

either because you indeed haven't got the C++ standard <string> header
(not to be confused with C's <string.h> --- is there a separate "devel"
RPM for C++ header files? if so, do you have it?), or because configure
got confused and failed to define HAVE_CXX_STRING_HEADER when it should.
Can't tell which though; the config.cache file you sent doesn't record
anything about HAVE_CXX_STRING_HEADER.

			regards, tom lane