Boing :)
The same happened with VC++ 5.x, general agreement was: compiler bug.
That line is used for debugging only, if you need to compile that _now_
you can just comment it out I believe.
Somebody more knowledgable than me in this area please correct me if I'm
having my foot in my mouth :)
Heiko
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Eugene Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 11:08 AM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: minor problem compiling wget-1.7 on Mac OS X / Darwin
>
>
>On Mac OS X 10.0.4, the core system is Darwin 1.3.7, and GCC is this
>version:
>
> bash-2.05$ cc -v
> Reading specs from /usr/libexec/gcc/darwin/ppc/2.95.2/specs
> Apple Computer, Inc. version gcc-926, based on gcc
>version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)
>
>I ran into a problem compiling wget-1.7:
>
> cc -I. -I. -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
>-DSYSTEM_WGETRC=\"/usr/local/etc/wgetrc\"
>-DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/share/locale\" -g -O2 -c html-parse.c
> html-parse.c: In function `advance_declaration':
> html-parse.c:449: character constant too long
> html-parse.c:449: parse error before character constant
> html-parse.c:449: stray '\' in program
> html-parse.c:454: character constant too long
> html-parse.c:461: character constant too long
> html-parse.c:472: character constant too long
> html-parse.c:481: character constant too long
> html-parse.c:481: character constant too long
> html-parse.c:481: stray '\' in program
> html-parse.c:773: Unterminated string constant
> make[1]: *** [html-parse.o] Error 1
> make: *** [src] Error 2
>
>The real problem is with line 435 of html-parse.c:
>
> assert (ch == '\'' || ch == '"');
>
>For some reason, Apple's GCC does not like the '"' in its assert().
>There are two different ways to fix this:
>
> 1) change '"' to '\"', which is also legal ANSI C.
>
> 2) CPPFLAGS="-traditional-cpp" ./configure
>
>I haven't gotten an answer from Apple in any of their forums on why
>assert() breaks so badly. Comments and suggestions are welcome (please
>CC me any messages, as I'm not subscribed to any Wget mailing list).
>Thanks in advance.
>
>
>--
>Eugene Lee
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