[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Hi, > > Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > >>> Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> >>>> I'm still not sure whether this is a guile or gnutls problem. Before >>>> making changes in gnutls to override gnulib's gnu99 default, or adding >>>> thinks like -fgnu89-inline, I want to understand the problem better. >>>> Adding workarounds like that is easy to do, but years later the >>>> workaround often start to cause new problems and it will be difficult to >>>> know what to do. (Compare the -D_REENTRANT flag..) > > BTW, `-fgnu89-inline' will always be needed for the GnuTLS Guile code > anyway, because even if we fix it in Guile and GMP, there will always be > people trying to compile GnuTLS with a version of Guile and/or GMP that > doesn't have the fix. > >> Or ask Apple to fix their compiler. Isn't it possible to build gcc on >> mac os x manually? Then it wouldn't have this problem, I guess. > > I suppose there won't be any problem when they ship their OS with GCC > 4.3 but in the meantime, we either have to implement the above fix or to > impede our software's portability as a sign of disagreement with Apple's > silliness. I guess it's easier to stick to the former. ;-)
Right. > (Of course, another option is to not build GnuTLS in C99 mode...) We'll see what my question on the gnulib list leads too.. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2008-04/msg00079.html /Simon _______________________________________________ Help-gnutls mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnutls
