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Scott Peterson wrote:

> I'm building dbus-glib from source and I get this error when I make:
> 
> In file included from /usr/include/unistd.h:4,
>                  from dbus-binding-tool-glib.c:39:
> /usr/include/sys/unistd.h:108: error: parse error before numeric constant
> 
> Ideas?

There's not enough information here to really be able say much, but if I
had to guess I'd say that something included prior to that header has
polluted the macro namespace.  This is easy enough to check by just
looking at the preprocessed source.

Brian

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