Re: macOS 12.6.3, static_assert, and vasnprintf compilation failure

[Deri]

On Friday, 10 February 2023 20:42:09 GMT Bruno Haible wrote:
> [Dropping bug-gnulib CC]
> 
> G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > If users of macOS of recent vintage would like to pull groff Git HEAD
> > and try a build, I'd appreciate hearing of your experiences.
> 
> The C/C++ part of the build now works fine on macOS 12.5.
> 
> It fails later, with
> 
>   GEN      font/devpdf/download
> Can't use string ("") as an ARRAY ref while "strict refs" in use at
> /Users/haible/groff-1.23.0.rc2.22-55d3/build/font/devpdf/util/BuildFoundrie
> s line 102, <F> line 23. make[2]: *** [font/devpdf/download] Error 25

Hi Bruno,

Please could you send me line 334 of build/font/devpdf/util/BuildFoundries and 
change line 
335 to:-

    return [] if $?;

Remove the file build/font/devpdf/download (if it exists) and run make. This 
should get further. 
If it does, please also attach the build/font/devpdf/download file.

I'd like to see line 334 because it should contain the ghostscript program 
name, gs, but I can 
duplicate the error if ghostscript is not installed. The change to line 335 
will stop the error in this 
circumstance.

Cheers 

Deri

> Note: Rather than testers producing their own tarball, it's better if you
> provide a tarball for testing. The reason is: what you will release
> has some specific versions of Autoconf, Automake, Libtool, pkg.m4, and
> includes some specific commit of Gnulib. If a tester tests something
> different than what you will use in the release, there's some risk that
> some packaging bug will be unnoticed.
> 
> So, please ask for testing on platform-testers again, when you see fit.
> 
> Bruno