On Fri, 28 Sep 2001 11:03:18 BST, "Ian Abbott" wrote: >On 27 Sep 2001 at 14:45, Kareila wrote: > >> Since wget is no longer included in the standard Mac OS X >distribution, I >> tried to compile my own from the 1.7 sources and got stuck right about >here: >[snip] > >This is a well-known bug in Apple's special C pre-processor - at least >it's well known on the wget lists!
Thanks for your response! If I had known, I would have searched the list archives instead of "bugging" you. :) >There are two solutions to the problem, neither of which I am able to >try myself - they were originated by Eugene Lee and Edward J. Sabol (as >far as I know), and echoed several times since by others including >myself. I did get a report from someone who said neither option worked >for him! The CPPFLAGS="-no-cpp-precomp" solution worked for me, and I've added it to my permanent environment since I suspect it will avoid other porting problems in the future as well. Thanks again! --Kareila
