Re: [bug-gettext] Unable to build gettext with PGI compilers

[Stewart, Adam James]

Bruno,

You're absolutely right, sorry for the confusion!

Adam J. Stewart
Assistant Systems Administrator
Laboratory Computing Resource Center
Computing, Environment and Life Sciences
Argonne National Laboratory

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From: Bruno Haible address@hidden
Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2017 4:12 PM
To: address@hidden
Cc: Stewart, Adam James
Subject: Re: [bug-gettext] Unable to build gettext with PGI compilers

Stewart, Adam James wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to build gettext 0.19.8.1 with PGI 16.5, but it fails during make 
> with the following error messages:
>
> PGC-S-0239-Unmatched #else (../ncurses/expanded.c: 61)
> PGC-S-0240-Unmatched #endif (../ncurses/expanded.c: 63)
> PGC/x86-64 Linux 16.5-0: compilation completed with severe errors
> make[1]: *** [../obj_s/expanded.o] Error 2
> make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> make[1]: Leaving directory 
> `/scratch/ajstewart/spack-stage/spack-stage-d73gmq/ncurses-6.0/ncurses'
> make: *** [all] Error 2

You are building ncurses here, not gettext. Your report should be directed to
this list: https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-ncurses

> I can provide the rest of the build output if you want.

It would be more useful, probably, if you would provide the relevant part of
expanded.c (because this is a generated file):
$ grep -n '^#' expanded.c

Bruno