Re: MacOS X last lap

[Paul Johnson]

Bill Northcott wrote:
> Paul's cvs updates killed one error and a heap of warnings.  .la for 
> analysis, misc,objectbase,random,simtools,simtoolsgui,space,tclobjc and 
> tkobjc all build.
>
> We now have just four show stoppers:
>
> 1. src/collections/collections.m
> as part of the compilation it makes a file collections.xm.  This file 
> appears to contain almost every line twice.  This spews a row of errors 
> and dies.  This error has been the same on every compiler I have tried.

I know for sure I've seen that. I think it happens when gperf is not 
installed. I wish I could remember.


> 2. src/defobj/HDF5Object.m
> at lines 1045 and 1070 the following code appears:
>   if (cdata->command == H5T_CONV_INIT)
>     cdata->need_bkg = H5T_BKG_TEMP;
>   else if (cdata->command == H5T_CONV_CONV)
>
> H5T_BKG_TEMP appears nowhere else in the source and is not replaced by the 
> precompiler, presumably the first conditional has not been true on other 
> platforms.  Any idea where H5T_BKG_TEMP should be defined and what it's 
> for.


$ rpm -q hdf5
hdf5-1.4.3-1RH73
$ cd /usr/include
$ grep H5T_CON H*
address@hidden include]$ grep H5T_B H*
H5Fpublic.h:    H5T_BKG_NO              = 0,    /*background buffer is 
not needed, send NULL */
H5Fpublic.h:    H5T_BKG_TEMP    = 1,    /*bkg buffer used as temp 
storage only      */
H5Fpublic.h:    H5T_BKG_YES             = 2     /*init bkg buf with data 
before conversion   */
H5Tpublic.h:    H5T_BITFIELD         = 4,   /*bit field types 
                 */



> 3. src/defobj/defobj.m
> in the intermediate file defobj.xm there is what appears to be an out of 
> context @end near the beginning.  The causes a parse error followed by 
> other problems and it dies.

Too abstract for me

> 4. src/activity/activity.m
> in the intermediate file activity.xm there is a parse error in line 6. 
Don't these xm errors trace back to failures of gperf, sed, or emacs ?


> Is there any significance in errors 1,3 and 4 all involving Objective C 
> code files with names commencing with lowercase letters, which is not 
> usually the case?  In any event, they would appear to be a function of the 
> precompiler maybe bugs in that. 
>
> Error 2 looks like an error in the Swarm sources.
>
> Bill Northcott
>
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