[MacPorts] #13963: 'port install evince' fails with gcc 'parse error' in comics-document.c -- OSX 10.4.11 PPC (fwd)

[Kurt Hillig]

On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Chris Pickel wrote:

> On 16 Jan, 2008, at 22:06, Kurt Hillig wrote:
>> Apologies if you see this twice, but after taking a month break I'm back 
>> trying to get gnucash installed once again - and once again I'm running 
>> into a roadblock.  I've already opened a ticket (see below), but 'port info 
>> evince' says:
>> 
>> Maintainers: nomaintainer at macports.org
>
> I don't have GNOME installed (nor the time to install all of it), but on my 
> system it appears that, depending on the definition of __DARWIN_UNIX03, 
> /usr/include/stdio.h may define stdout as a value containing an &.
>
> It might be worth editing the portfile (it's at `port file evince`) to 
> include the following:
>
> configure.cflags-append "-D__DARWIN_UNIX03=1"
>
> ...and if that doesn't work, trying:
>
> configure.cflags-append "-D__DARWIN_UNIX03=0"

This sounds promising - I'll take a look when I get home tonight and let 
you know what happens!

> If either of those works, post to the ticket [1] and I can amend the 
> portfile. But I'm just shooting in the dark here; I hope something comes of 
> it :)

I'd keep my fingers crossed but that makes it really hard to type...  ;-)

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