Re: compiling gui with clang/libobjc2 failure

[Sebastian Reitenbach]

On Friday, February 1, 2013 10:49 CET, Luboš Doležel <lubos@dolezel.info> wrote:

>  On Fri, 1 Feb 2013 08:34:03 +0000, David Chisnall wrote:
> > On 1 Feb 2013, at 07:36, Sebastian Reitenbach wrote:
> >
> >> #  ifdef __BLOCKS__
> >> #    include <dispatch/dispatch.h>
> >> #  endif /* __BLOCKS__ */
> >
> > This is definitely a cups problem.  They are assuming that blocks
> > support (a compiler feature) implies the presence of libdispatch (a
> > library).  I don't know if libdispatch has been ported to OpenBSD.
> >
> > I think the -base configure checks for the presence of libdispatch
> > because we use it for parallel array operations, so the best thing to
> > do is use that macro to conditionally #undef __BLOCKS__ before
> > including cups.h
> >
> > David
> >
>
>  Yep, I hit the same problem on Linux. I simply edit the CUPS header 
>  file and remove the include... Apple, which runs the CUPS development
>  now, apparently assumes that blocks support is OS X-only.
>
>  Reminds me of a similar issue with unistd.h from glibc that uses
>  "__block" for an argument name. And they reject changing the
>  (irrelevant) name to something else.

Thanks to all who answered. I'll probably file a bug report
against cups then. For the time being, commenting it out
solves the immediate problem to me.

cheers,
Sebastian

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>  Luboš Doležel
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