[Swarm-Support] Error on Collections

[Vincent]

Hi,

As a newbie, I am fighting with Swarm to compile. I already encoutered 
numerous problems during compiling (using a FreeBSD 4.6-platform), but the 
final one keeps me bothered... Configure runs nice and make will do ok, 
until getting into the collections part, where make throws out :

 gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I../.. -I../../libobjc -I../.. 
-I../../libobjc -I. -I.. -I./.. -I./../defobj -I./../misc -I./../objectbase 
-I./../random -DBUILDING_SWARM -g -O2 -fgnu-runtime -fno-strict-aliasing 
-Wall -Wno-import -Wno-protocol -Wno-long-long -Wno-unknown-pragmas -c 
collections.m -Wp,-MD,.deps/collections.TPlo  -fPIC -DPIC -o 
.libs/collections.o
In file included from collections.m:26:
collections.xm:6: syntax error before `OffsetOutOfRange'
collections.xm:8: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of 
`AlreadyAtEnd'
collections.xm:8: conflicting types for `AlreadyAtEnd'
collections.h:344: previous declaration of `AlreadyAtEnd'
collections.xm:8: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of 
`AlreadyAtStart'
collections.xm:8: conflicting types for `AlreadyAtStart'
collections.h:344: previous declaration of `AlreadyAtStart'
collections.xm:8: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of 
`InvalidIndexLoc'
collections.xm:8: conflicting types for `InvalidIndexLoc'
collections.h:344: previous declaration of `InvalidIndexLoc'
collections.xm:8: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of 
`InvalidLocSymbol'
collections.xm:8: conflicting types for `InvalidLocSymbol'
collections.h:344: previous declaration of `InvalidLocSymbol'
collections.xm:8: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
collections.xm:9: warning: address@hidden' must appear in an implementation 
context
collections.xm:10: warning: address@hidden' must appear in an implementation 
context
collections.xm:11: invalid identifier address@hidden'
collections.xm:12: invalid identifier address@hidden'
collections.xm:12: syntax error before address@hidden'
collections.xm:13: method definition not in class context

Apparently, something within the collections.xm doesn't work out nice. The 
error-lines in that files are:

#import <collections.h>
#import <objc/objc-api.h>

externvardef id Start=0,End=0,Between=0,Removed=0,Member=0;
externvardef id OffsetOutOfRange=0,NoMembers=0,
externvardef id OffsetOutOfRange=0,NoMembers=0, <--- line 6
AlreadyAtEnd=0,AlreadyAtStart=0,InvalidIndexLoc=0,InvalidLocSymbol=0;
AlreadyAtEnd=0,AlreadyAtStart=0,InvalidIndexLoc=0,InvalidLocSymbol=0;

I configured Swarm to configure without Java as

./configure --with-tclincludedir=/usr/local/include/tcl8.3/
                --with-tclscriptdir=/usr/local/lib/tcl8.3/
                --with-tkincludedir=/usr/local/include/tk8.3/
                --with-tkscriptdir=/usr/local/lib/tk8.3/
                --without-jdkdir

I am running all suggested software versions (gcc 2.95.3, emacs 21.3.4) but 
am stuck here.

Does anyone has some valuable tips here ?

Thanks in advance!


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Vincent
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