[gopher] Can't build Gopher on Mac OS X
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Hi, guys
I saw a mention of Gopher's 10th birthday on Slashdot, and wanted to
download it and try it for myself. Thus far, it doesn't work, but I'm
not willing to give up just yet.
However, I'm just learning how to program in C, and I have about 'zip'
experience with modifying configure scripts and makefiles to get it to
compile successfully. I hope there will be someone here to help me.
Basically, when I type make, a whole whack (yes that's a technical term)
of "warning: implicit declaration of function"'s come up for function
calls like malloc() and free(). And, when I check the output of
./configure, indeed it can't find a couple of .h files that are
definitely present (like malloc.h)
So, anyway, the make process dies trying to compile GSgopherobj.c during
the preprocessing stage. Which obviously is a different problem, but
even if it didn't die there, I'm sure my program would have been
non-functional due to the problems described in the earlier paragraph.
So: I've looked through the archives, and it looks to me that you're
generally helpful, provided that the newbies give you enough
information. What do you need from me to help you figure out what's
going on? This is the first unixy package I've tried to compile that
Didn't Work (out of about I think 3 in total, personal projects
notwithstanding), and I'm willing to roll up my sleeves to see what's
involved in getting it to work. Odds are, these kinds of issues will
crop up in other software packages too.
Thanks in advance!
-rh
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