Re: Compiling coreutils-5.0 on a Mac Powerbook under OS X

[John Lowe]

In message <address@hidden>, Jim Meyering 
<address@hidden> writes
> John Lowe <address@hidden> wrote:
> ...
> > $ make
> > make  all-recursive
> > Making all in lib
> ...
> > gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DLIBDIR=\"/usr/local/lib\" -I. -I. -I..  -I.. -I.
> > -g -O2 -c strftime.c strftime.c:63: header file 'wchar.h' not found
> > cpp-precomp: warning: errors during smart preprocessing, retrying in
> > basic mode make[3]: *** [strftime.o] Error 1
>
> If you really don't have any wchar.h on that system,
> then run `man mbrlen' and see if it tells of some
> other .h file that must be included to get a definition
> of the mbstate_t type.

While `man mbrlen' has `#include <wchar.h>' in it's synopsis, the file 
does not seem to exist in the Apple Dec2002DevToolsCD.dmg which I used 
to install the `developer system'. I tried reinstalling the software to 
make sure I hadn't managed to delete wchar.h by mistake. I would think 
that this would be a notifiable omission - if I could figure out where 
at Apple to notify it!

> Then you can try replacing the #include "wchar.h" in
> lib/strftime.c with your new include(s) and run make again.
>
> If all else fails, change this line of strftime.c
>
> #define DO_MULTIBYTE (HAVE_MBLEN && ! MULTIBYTE_IS_FORMAT_SAFE)
>
> to this:
>
> #define DO_MULTIBYTE 0

All else failed so I did this & the whole thing compiled. However there 
seemed to be a lot of syntax errors (complaining about && on many lines 
from line 5730 and other things later) in regex.c. It seems to have 
retried in basic mode & succeeded... Limited testing shows that the 
package has given me working programs.

Thank you very much for your help. Is there anything else you need me to 
do?
--
John Lowe
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