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:
>
> 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
[snip]
This is a well-known bug in Apple's special C pre-processor - at least
it's well known on the wget lists!
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!
Solution 1) Change line 435 of html-parse.c to:
assert (ch == '\'' || ch == '\"');
(i.e. add a \ before the ")
Solution 2) Use the following command to configure the Makefile:
CPPFLAGS="-no-cpp-precomp" ./configure
(then do a "make clean" and a "make").
If solution 2 doesn't work, you might try ...
Solution 2a) (Deprecated) Use the following command to configure the
Makefile:
CPPFLAGS="-traditional-cpp" ./configure
(then do a "make clean" and a "make").
N.B. solution 2a is deprecated because it won't work with the future GCC
3.1 compiler.
