Re: spiped build issues on OS X

[Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>]

On 08/30/14 15:59, Frederick Akalin wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 3:38 PM, Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com> wrote:
>> Oh wow.  I'm surprised this didn't go even worse.  The Makefiles in the
>> individual spipe and spiped directories aren't designed to be used with
>> Makefile.POSIX...
> 
> I know. But that raises the question: how should someone other than
> yourself (running FreeBSD) hack on spiped? Is there a better approach
> than what I'm doing?

My general philosophy has been "I'll deal with that situation when it arises". ;-)

So far the people who have submitted patches have started from the published
tarballs.

>>> In file included from ../libcperciva/util/asprintf.c:2:
>>> In file included from /usr/include/stdio.h:71:
>>> /usr/include/sys/_types/_va_list.h:31:26: error: redefinition of typedef
>>>       'va_list' is a C11 feature [-Werror,-Wtypedef-redefinition]
>>
>> I suppose technically this is true... but it's also a feature in C99 and
>> C89, so I have no idea where this complaint is coming from.
> 
> Actually, see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8367646/redefinition-of-typedef
> . Looks like it's legal in C++ but not in C89 or C99, probably due to
> an oversight.

Oh, now I understand.  I thought it was complaining about 'va_list'.  Right,
the problem is the typedef redefinition, which is an "OS X headers are screwed
up" bug.

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