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

[Robert Alan Byer <byer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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>>
>>>>>alternately, a quicker method would be to put something like:
>>>>>
>>>>>#ifndef FC__ATTRIBUTE_H
>>>>>#error
>>>>>#endif
>>>>>
>>>>>at around line 33 of client/attribute.c
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Well, I'll leave it up to you guys to figure out how to best handle this
>>>>problem, hopefully it will get resolved soon so I can test out the
>>>>civclient on OpenVMS and submit any changes.
>>>
>>>What happens if you put those three lines in client/attribute.c, line 33
>>>(or somewhere below '#include "attribute.h"')?  If Mike's suspicion is
>>>correct (which I think it is), the #error directive should cause a
>>>compile error.
>>>
>>>If this is the problem, it should be easily fixed.
>>>
>>
>>
>> With the above three lines inserted at line 33 in
>> ../freeciv/client/attribute.c I get the following....
>
>Looks like the "check" doesn't work since the error is in the header
>files anyway.
>
>Well, even so it is almost certain Mike's right about the problem.
>
>Try the attached patch - a preliminary one for removing
>common/attribute.h.  Meanwhile I'll make a full patch.
>

Appears the patch is working,  I have to modify the OpenVMS build script 
for the client audio files (which OpenVMS dosen't need, but is compiling 
the files anyway because they are there in the client directory).

I'll know more later, but I THINK that solved the problem.


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