Re: gnulib woes & run-octave fails, suggestions?

[Jarno Rajahalme]

This quote from build-aux/warn-on-use.h:

"this implies that _GL_WARN_ON_USE is only safe to
   use if FUNCTION is known to already have a declaration."

Jarno

On Apr 7, 2010, at 9:29 AM, ext Jarno Rajahalme wrote:
> 
> It seems to me that the_GL_CXXALIASWARN should be compiled only if the system 
> has the function in question, like this:
> 
> # if @HAVE_FCHOWNAT@
> _GL_CXXALIASWARN (fchownat);
> # endif
> 
> 
> Also, it seems that the __warning__ in GCC 4.4.3 (or 4.4.2, tried both) is 
> not working properly, as I get over a hundred of these warnigns, even when 
> the source has the gnulib:: before the respective function name.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
>  Jarno
> 
> 
> On Apr 4, 2010, at 8:10 AM, ext John W. Eaton wrote:
> 
>> On  2-Apr-2010, Jarno Rajahalme wrote:
>> 
>> | I' trying to compile the development version of Octave, and have
>> | encountered some gnulib-related problems:
>> | 
>> | 1. My system does not have fchownat, and compilation fails in misc/quit.cc:
>> | 
>> | libtool: compile:  /opt/local/bin/g++-mp-4.4 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. 
>> -I/opt/local/include -I../libgnu -I../libgnu -I/opt/local/include -O0 -m64 
>> -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I/opt/local/include -I/opt/local/include/freetype2 
>> -I/opt/local/include -I/opt/local/include -Wall -W -Wshadow -Wold-style-cast 
>> -Wformat -O0 -m64 -D_THREAD_SAFE -pthread -O0 -m64 -MT 
>> misc/libcruft_la-quit.lo -MD -MP -MF misc/.deps/libcruft_la-quit.Tpo -c 
>> misc/quit.cc  -fno-common -DPIC -o misc/.libs/libcruft_la-quit.o
>> | In file included from 
>> /opt/local/include/gcc44/c++//x86_64-apple-darwin10/bits/gthr-default.h:42,
>> |                 from 
>> /opt/local/include/gcc44/c++//x86_64-apple-darwin10/bits/gthr.h:162,
>> 
>> So this is an OS X system?
>> 
>> Precisely what "development version" are you trying to compile?
>> 
>> Is the your copy of the gnulib sources up to date?  It changes
>> frequently.
>> 
>> jwe
> 
>