Re: [help-gv] Installing gnu gv on Mac OSX 10.5.6 compile error

[Markus Steinborn]

Hi Lang,

Lang Valentine wrote:
> Am I missing something?
>
> Lang 
I got an important hint by email today. I think it may help you.

Greetings from Germany

Markus Steinborn



Here is the email I got:

Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> I'm the maintainer of gv in MacPorts. Apologies for not testing 
> 3.6.6.90 or 3.6.6.91, but while updating the gv port to 3.6.7 (on Mac 
> OS X 10.4.11 with Xcode 2.5) I got this error:
>
>
> /usr/bin/gcc-4.0 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.  -DNON_BLOCKING_IO -DGV_CODE 
> -DGV_LIBDIR=\"/mp/share/gv\" -I../lib -I../lib -g -DUSE_SETENV_CODE 
> -I/mp/include -I/mp/include -O2 -MT confirm.o -MD -MP -MF 
> .deps/confirm.Tpo -c -o confirm.o confirm.c
> callbacks.c: In function 'cb_presentation':
> callbacks.c:960: error: 'SIGCLD' undeclared (first use in this function)
> callbacks.c:960: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> callbacks.c:960: error: for each function it appears in.)
> make[2]: *** [callbacks.o] Error 1
>
>
> Googling for this error, I see other projects have run into it:
>
>
> http://markmail.org/message/xpfwof4bu44moxbo#query:SIGCLD%20mac+page:1+mid:w5vb76meovpbe2ys+state:results 
>
>
>
> The above suggests that for Mac OS X and FreeBSD this should be added:
>
>
> #ifndef SIGCLD
> #   define SIGCLD SIGCHLD
> #endif
>
>
> Adding that near the top of src/callbacks.c did allow it to compile. 
> So I just wanted to let you know.