Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
Hi Joseph,
On 4 May 2008, at 14:18, Joseph Maxwell wrote:
gcc -I. -g -O2 -MT version-etc.o -MD -MP -MF
.deps/version-etc.Tpo -c -o version-etc.o version-etc.c
version-etc.c: In function `version_etc_va':
version-etc.c:53: error: parse error before const
version-etc.c:53: error: parse error before const
version-etc.c:53: error: parse error before const
version-etc.c:53: error: parse error before const
version-etc.c:53: error: parse error before const
version-etc.c:53: error: parse error before ')' token
gmake[3]: *** [version-etc.o] Error 1
gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/appl/gnu/m4/m4-1.4.11/lib'
gmake[2]: *** [all] Error 2
gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/appl/gnu/m4/m4-1.4.11/lib'
gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/appl/gnu/m4/m4-1.4.11'
gmake: *** [all] Error 2
=
could you advise
] cat -n src/version-etc.c | sed '47,55p;d'
47 {
48va_list tmp_authors;
49
50va_copy (tmp_authors, authors);
51
52n_authors = 0;
53while (va_arg (tmp_authors, const char *) != NULL)
54 ++n_authors;
55 }
Contents of my src directory
% ls /usr/local/appl/gnu/m4/m4-1.4.9/src/
builtin.c debug.c eval.cformat.c freeze.c
input.c m4.c m4.h macro.c
Makefile Makefile.am Makefile.in output.c path.c
stackovf.csymtab.c ./.deps/
../
% version-etc.c found in
/usr/local/appl/gnu/m4/m4-1.4.11/lib/version-etc.c
% sed -n 47,56p version-etc.c
/* Count the number of authors. */
{
va_list tmp_authors;
va_copy (tmp_authors, authors);
n_authors = 0;
while (va_arg (tmp_authors, const char *) != NULL)
++n_authors;
}
IRIX version
% uname -R
6.5 6.5.22f
gcc version
% gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/freeware/lib/gcc-lib/mips-sgi-irix6.5/3.3/specs
Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr/freeware
--enable-version-specific-runtime-libs --disable-shared --enable-threads
--enable-haifa --enable-libgcj --disable-c-mbchar
Thread model: single
gcc version 3.3
Probably, I should update gcc also, perhaps you can advise on any
specific configuration to enable / disable etc.
It seems your system doesn't have a working va_arg macro. What
version of irix are you using? What version of gcc are you using?
m4-1.4.11 builds and passes all tests for me with both sgi's compiler
and my gcc-4.2.3 installation:
] ./config.guess
mips-sgi-irix6.5
] /bin/cc -v
MIPSpro Compilers: Version 7.4.4m
] ./configure CC='/bin/cc'
...
] make all check
...
===
All 47 tests passed
===
...
Skipped checks were:
./109.changeword ./110.changeword ./111.changeword ./112.changeword
./113.changeword ./114.changeword
All checks successful
] make clean
...
] /opt/gnu/gcc423/bin/gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 4.2.3
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There
is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE.
] ./configure CC='/opt/gnu/gcc42/bin/gcc'
...
] make all check
...
===
All 47 tests passed
===
...
Skipped checks were:
./109.changeword ./110.changeword ./111.changeword ./112.changeword
./113.changeword ./114.changeword
All checks successful
Maybe your gcc is not installed correctly?
However, since m4-1.4.11 has 3 authors, you could work around it by
rewriting the version_etc function to accept author names explicitly:
void
version_etc (FILE *stream,
const char *command_name, const char *package,
const char *version, const char *author1, const char
*author2,
const char *author3, const char *ignored)
{
if (command_name)
fprintf (stream, %s (%s) %s\n, command_name, package, version);
else
fprintf (stream, %s %s\n, package, version);
/* TRANSLATORS: Translate (C) to the copyright symbol
(C-in-a-circle), if this symbol is available in the user's
locale. Otherwise, do not translate (C); leave it as-is. */
fprintf (stream, version_etc_copyright, _((C)), COPYRIGHT_YEAR);
fputs (_(\
\n\
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html\n\
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.\n\
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.\n\
\n\
),
stream);
/* TRANSLATORS: Each %s denotes an author name. */
fprintf (stream, _(Written by %s, %s, and %s.\n), author1,
author2, author3);
}
The code in my source is a tad bit different and my C isn't fully up to
snuff. On which line should the explicit authors field be filled
void
version_etc_va (FILE *stream,
const char *command_name, const char *package,
