Re: Error when compiling CVS emacs on Mac OS snow leopard

[Xah Lee]

> I recently upgraded Mac OS X to Snow Leopard and tried to compile CVS
> emacs; I get the following error:

this thread will help:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2009-08/msg01401.html

  Xah
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On Sep 3, 4:34 am, ramblex <alexdul...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I recently upgraded Mac OS X to Snow Leopard and tried to compile CVS
> emacs; I get the following error:
>
> In file included from nsterm.h:20,
>                  from nsterm.m:41:
> dispextern.h:1250: error: array type has incomplete element type
>
> the compiler then comes up with a load of errors such as
> nsterm.m: In function ‘ns_get_glyph_string_clip_rect’:
> nsterm.m:2479: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
>
> I configured with the following command:
> ./configure --with-ns
>
> My gcc version is:
> i686-apple-darwin10-gcc-4.2.1 (GCC) 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5646)
>
> Having tried to look at the source code it seems to be something to do
> with NativeRectangle, which is defined as _NSRect in nsgui.h...I've
> tried a few hacks but I don't know enough about how it all works. Any
> ideas?