[Freeciv-Dev] Re: build error under mac os x (PR#894)

[Brian Olson <locke@xxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday, August 14, 2001, at 02:33  AM, Gaute B Strokkenes wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, mxcantor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Full_Name: Max Cantor
> > Version: 1.11.4-1.12
> > Distribution: Built from source
> > Client: Both (or N/A)
> > OS: Mac OS X (Darwin-ppc)
> > Submission from: (NULL) (165.247.91.195)
> >
> > The gcc supplied with apple-darwin-ppc does not support variadic
> > macro arguments.  Therefore, the cpp always croaks when it gets to
> > freelog macro in the log.c or log.h file.  Basically, it has to be
> > set to use the functional, slower, non-macro form of freelog
> > provided for non-gcc compilers.  I'm not sure how to set this
> > automatically, so I'm just reporting it.
> This came up a while ago.  The best way to fix it is to disable the
> Apple-specific CPP when compiling Freeciv.  This is no great loss
> since it will not speed up the compilation of programs that don't use
> the OS X APIs anyway.  Unfortunately, no one were able to provide
> clear instructions as to how to do this from a configure script.
>
> Even better, Apple could fix their CPP...
I hear Apple's working on it, but they've got about 4 years of GNU-CC 
patches to merge in from where their CPP branched. I don't envy the 
task. Anyhow, this patch makes my nice fresh 1.12.0 build run cleanly.
[insert clever signoff here]
Brian Olson http://bolson.org/


--- configure.in.orig   Fri Aug 17 01:54:12 2001
+++ configure.in        Fri Aug 17 01:58:17 2001
@@ -186,6 +186,11 @@
   AC_SUBST(ARFLAGS)
 fi

+dnl MacOS X or Darwin specifics
+if test x`$UNAME -s` = xDarwin ; then
+  CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -traditional-cpp"
+fi
+
 dnl Windows-specific settings
 AC_MINGW32
 if test x"$MINGW32" = "xyes"; then