Re: [bug-gawk] Problem in installing gawk on OS X 10.8.4 (Mountain Lion)

[Hermann Peifer]

On 2013-08-25 11:14, Arnold wrote:
> I think this patch will do the trick. You should should do 'make
> distclean', then apply the patch.  Then touch configh.in and configure
> after applying it in the hope that the auto* machinery won't kick in. Then
> run configure and rebuild.
>
> Please let me know if this works.

Hi,

I applied the patch on OS X 10.7.5 and ended up with a compilation 
error. The steps are listed below.

Hope this helps, Hermann

$ git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/gawk.git gawk2
Cloning into 'gawk2'...
...

$ cd gawk2/

$  patch -p1 < ../history_list.patch
patching file configh.in
patching file configure
patching file debug.c
patching file m4/readline.m4

$ ./bootstrap.sh && ./configure && make
...
gcc -DDEFPATH='".:/usr/local/share/awk"' 
-DDEFLIBPATH="\"/usr/local/lib/gawk\"" -DSHLIBEXT="\"so"\" 
-DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DGAWK -DLOCALEDIR='"/usr/local/share/locale"' -I. 
-g -O2 -DNDEBUG -MT debug.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/debug.Tpo -c -o debug.o 
debug.c
debug.c: In function ‘do_save’:
debug.c:4082: warning: dereferencing ‘void *’ pointer
debug.c:4082: error: request for member ‘line’ in something not a 
structure or union
debug.c: In function ‘serialize’:
debug.c:4406: warning: dereferencing ‘void *’ pointer
debug.c:4406: error: request for member ‘line’ in something not a 
structure or union
debug.c:4409: warning: dereferencing ‘void *’ pointer
debug.c:4409: error: request for member ‘line’ in something not a 
structure or union
debug.c:4409: warning: dereferencing ‘void *’ pointer
debug.c:4409: error: request for member ‘line’ in something not a 
structure or union
make[2]: *** [debug.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2