GNU bug report logs - #13495
Compilation fails on Mac OS X 10.8.0

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 22:34:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #49 received at 13495 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: bug-gnulib <bug-gnulib <at> gnu.org>, 13495 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#13495: Compilation fails on Mac OS X 10.8.0
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 14:30:59 -0500

Paul Eggert wrote, On 01/25/2013 05:18 PM:
> On 01/25/2013 11:25 AM, Assaf Gordon wrote:
> 
>> So I'm guessing that even though gnulib's stpncpy code is used,
>> because the MacOS's native declaration of stpncpy is included, it
>> causes problems when the macro is expanded to use "__stpncpy_chk".
> 
> Does the following patch fix things for you?  It attempts to change
> the substitute string.h to inhibit that macro expansion.
> 

No, doesn't work, on two levels:

1. This code isn't used - due to the combination of #if's.
The resulting "lib/string.h" contains:
    /* Copy no more than N bytes of SRC to DST, returning a pointer past the
       last non-NUL byte written into DST.  */
    #if 1
    # if 0 || (!0 && defined stpncpy)
    #  if !(defined __cplusplus && defined GNULIB_NAMESPACE)
    #   undef stpncpy
    #   define stpncpy rpl_stpncpy
    #  endif
    # endif

And this isn't used. I checked by adding an "#error" above the "#undef" - and it didn't trigger an error.

2. I took the two lines (undef+defined) and put them outside the #if's (and verified they were processed, using #error) - but they still did not fix the compilation error.
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