Re: [Pan-users] Can't compile pan-0.99

[Charles Kerr]

> On Sunday 28 May 2006 10:52 am, Charles Kerr wrote:
>> > /usr/include/libintl.h:40: error: expected unqualified-id before
>> "const"
>> > /usr/include/libintl.h:40: error: expected `)' before "const"
>> > /usr/include/libintl.h:40: error: expected init-declarator before
>> "const"
>> > /usr/include/libintl.h:40: error: expected `,' or `;' before "const"
>>
>> Googling around, it looks like one thing to try is wrapping
>> the #include g18n.h lines in extern "C":
>>
>> --- line-reader.cc.bak  2006-05-28 09:50:22.000000000 -0500
>> +++ line-reader.cc      2006-05-28 09:50:31.000000000 -0500
>> @@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
>>  #include <cerrno>
>>  #include <cstring>
>> +extern "C"{
>>  #include <glib/gi18n.h>
>> +}
>>  #include "file-util.h"
>>  #include "line-reader.h"
>>  #include "log.h"
>>
>> If this works, it will need to be repeated in quite a few files.
>> Let me know whether this works or not -- if it works, I can also
>> file a bug report and patch upstream to glib...
>>
> Trying to manually patch it, I get an error at line #4 in the patch. Then
> again, maybe I screwed up applying the patch. I'll try fudging the
> pan.spec
> file slightly and see if I can get it to compile with the patch.

Just wrapping the g18n.h line in extern "C" { } is the key,
you can do it by hand if the patch doesn't work for you.

extern "C" {
  #include <glib/g18n.h>
}