C Compiler error from standard headers - undefined C++ definitions

Question

I\'m trying to compile a C program, but receive many errors.

The errors are encountered in standard C headers files (inttypes.h, stdio.h, stat.h, etc).

The sour

Answer 1

I found the problem:

These constants were supposed to be defined in sys/cdefs.h.

For some reason this file was in /usr/include/bsd/sys/cdefs.h.

The bsd version of cdefs.h did not have these constants defined.

I removed the bsd directory and reinstalled libc6-dev.

Everything appears to be working now.