On 19/10/10 15:51, Mark Ellis wrote: > On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 14:02 +0200, Tejas Guruswamy wrote: > >> On 19/10/10 10:06, David Eriksson wrote: >> >>> If I remember correctly, DATE is one of the types in synce_types.h, >>> which are meant to have the same name and declaration as in Microsoft >>> Windows. Changing it in libsynce will diverge from that and also means >>> changing librapi2 and many tools and applications that depend on that >>> library. >>> >>> It would probably be better to hide the Python declaration of DATE >>> with some #define/#undef magic... :-) >>> >>> Best regards, >>> >>> David Eriksson >>> http://www.divideandconquer.se/ >>> >> Luckily, the python declaration was just a #define, so it can be #undef'd. >> This isn't an issue with python2.6 or before, even with gcc 4.5.1, btw. >> >> Here's a patch for libsynce that allows building the python rapi2 and >> rra bindings again. >> > That's remarkably inconvenient of them. Can you see where DATE is > defined in python, and what it is defined to ? Redefining it is fine for > our code, but we might break something else in the bindings. > Found it, here's the context:
/usr/include/python2.7/pyconfig.h: 1247: #define COMPILER "[GCC]" #define DATE "Aug 07 2010" #define TIME "16:54:59" Which is just the python package build info, inserted by configure. I'd be surprised if anyone is using it to do anything important ... >> Index: libsynce-0.15/lib/synce_types.h >> =================================================================== >> --- libsynce-0.15.orig/lib/synce_types.h >> +++ libsynce-0.15/lib/synce_types.h >> @@ -38,6 +38,8 @@ typedef uint64_t ULARGE_INTEGER; >> >> >> /* XXX: sizeof(double) must be 8 */ >> +//Python2.7 defines DATE as a macro in /usr/include/python2.7/pyconfig.h >> +#undef DATE >> typedef double DATE; Regards, Tejas ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download new Adobe(R) Flash(R) Builder(TM) 4 The new Adobe(R) Flex(R) 4 and Flash(R) Builder(TM) 4 (formerly Flex(R) Builder(TM)) enable the development of rich applications that run across multiple browsers and platforms. Download your free trials today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-dev2dev _______________________________________________ SynCE-Devel mailing list SynCE-Devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/synce-devel
