[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Problem Compiling Client Under OpenVMS With DEC C.

[Mike Kaufman <kaufman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

wasn't the fact that we have two attribute.h's a problem for some of the
handheld developers? Is the compiler trying to find the wrong attribute.h
and choking when it sees fc__attribute()?

I might suggest renaming attribute.h in the client to client_attribute.h
(with appropriate changes elsewhere) and see if that solves it. If you
check your preprocessor output, fc__attribute should not be appearing...

-mike

On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 06:51:06PM +0200, Davide Pagnin wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 18:31, Robert Alan Byer wrote:
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> > I pulled down the latest CVS snapshot so I could make sure that everything 
> > was still working for the OpenVMS side.
> 
> What is the latest freeciv package that you have compiled without
> problems?
> 
> 1.13.0?
> 1.12.0?
> another snapshot of 1.13.1-devel?
> 
> (This for understanding when the breakage may have happened)
> 
> > 
> > The civserver compiled, but the client had a problem.
> > 
> > While trying to compile "./freeciv/client/attribute.c" I got the following 
> > error..
> > 
> >      fc__attribute((format (printf, 3, 4)));
> > .....^
> > %CC-E-NOSEMI, Missing ";".
> > at line number 128 in file DISK$WORK:[TEST.FREECIV.COMMON]SHARED.H;1
> > 
> >                   fc__attribute((format (printf, 2, 3)));
> > ..................^
> > %CC-E-NOSEMI, Missing ";".
> > at line number 62 in file DISK$WORK:[TEST.FREECIV.COMMON]LOG.H;1
> 
> Can you test if changing the position at top of of
> #include "attribute.h"
> into attribute.c make any good?
> 
> Anyway, IMHO it happens that for some reason unknown to me, the macro
> preprocessor fail to eliminate fc__attribute(...) part, or, worst, does
> eliminate the ; that is there to closing the line.
> 
> It is possible that a spurious \n are giving problem to you?
> 
> If nothing else works, try to eliminate those fc__attribute call and see
> what happens.
> 
> (btw, I really can't imagine why it has problem with civclient and not
> with civserver, there are in fact uses of fc__attribute also in server/
> code).
> 
> > 
> > Any thoughts here?  I have the DEC C compiler set to ANSI89 as normal.
> > 
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