Re: Problem Compiling gnulib/getdelim on MacOSX

[Colin Watson]

On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 03:56:07PM +0200, Yves Blusseau wrote:
> when i try to compile grub 1.98 on MacOSX i have this error:
>
> gcc-4.2 -Ignulib -I./gnulib -I/opt/local/include -I. -I./include  
> -I./gnulib -I./include -Wall -W -DGRUB_LIBDIR=\"/opt/local/lib/`echo  
> grub/i386-pc | sed 's,x,x,'`\" -DLOCALEDIR=\"\" -DGRUB_MACHINE_PCBIOS=1  
> -DAPPLE_CC=1 -fnested-functions -DGRUB_UTIL=1 -Wno-undef  
> -Wno-sign-compare -Wno-unused -D_GL_UNUSED="__attribute__ ((unused))"  
> -I./gnulib -DGRUB_FILE=\"gnulib/getdelim.c\" -MD -c -o  
> grub_script_check-gnulib_getdelim.o gnulib/getdelim.c
> gnulib/getdelim.c:59: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or  
> '__attribute__' before 'getdelim'
> make: *** [grub_script_check-gnulib_getdelim.o] Error 1
>
> The problem is that the ssize_t type is not defined. We need to add  
> #include <unistd.h> on MacOSX like i do on my commit (r2175).
> But i know that we can't modify getdelim.c directly because is it imported.
> So if someone have an idea to solve this problem on OSX......

We should import the ssize_t module from gnulib, which adds a configure
macro for this.  The way grub uses gnulib is a bit odd, though, so it's
not something I'd feel comfortable with just fixing; it needs somebody
more familiar with it.  After we switch to automake (a prerequisite),
could we switch to using gnulib-tool for the gnulib import as well, so
that this becomes a bit more standard?

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Colin Watson                                       address@hidden