compile error on Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) and the patch

dormando dormando at rydia.net
Wed Nov 14 07:01:05 UTC 2007


Tested and committed something similar. Please harass us/me if it doesn't
work for you :) I tested it the best I could.

-Dormando

js wrote:
> Isn't here a good place to submit a patch?
> If so, could you lead me to the right place please?
> 
> On 10/21/07, js <ebgssth at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Compiling memcached(svn trunk ver) failed with these errors.
>>
>> $ make
>> make  all-recursive
>> Making all in doc
>> make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
>> source='memcached.c' object='memcached.o' libtool=no \
>> depfile='.deps/memcached.Po' tmpdepfile='.deps/memcached.TPo' \
>> depmode=gcc3 /bin/sh ./depcomp \
>> gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.   -I/opt/local/include   -g -O2 -c
>> `test -f 'memcached.c' || echo './'`memcached.c
>> memcached.c: In function `add_msghdr':
>> memcached.c:224: warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type
>> memcached.c: In function `add_iov':
>> memcached.c:584: error: `IOV_MAX' undeclared (first use in this function)
>> memcached.c:584: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
>> memcached.c:584: error: for each function it appears in.)
>> make[2]: *** [memcached.o] Error 1
>> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>> make: *** [all] Error 2
>>
>> This is because OS X 10.3, unlike 10.4, doesn't have IOV_MAX in limits.h.
>> Below is my patch.
>>
>> Index: memcached.c
>> ===================================================================
>> --- memcached.c (revision 629)
>> +++ memcached.c (working copy)
>> @@ -52,9 +52,9 @@
>>  #endif
>>  #endif
>>
>> -/* FreeBSD 4.x doesn't have IOV_MAX exposed. */
>> +/* FreeBSD 4.x and old OSX don't have IOV_MAX exposed. */
>>  #ifndef IOV_MAX
>> -#if defined(__FreeBSD__)
>> +#if defined(__FreeBSD__) || defined(__APPLE__)
>>  # define IOV_MAX 1024
>>  #endif
>>  #endif
>>
>> __APPLE__is the flag for darwin.
>> http://www.google.com/codesearch?hl=en&q=+lang:c+darwin-c.c+__APPLE__+show:jXyBUL4_D4k:I24eDuyXrWQ:BPY6ixvGT5I&sa=N&cd=1&ct=rc&cs_p=http://gcc.fyxm.net/prerelease-4.1.2-20070128/gcc-core-4.1.2-20070128.tar.bz2&cs_f=gcc-4.1.2-20070128/gcc/config/darwin-c.c#first
>>
>> I don't know whether this is right fix or not
>> so could someone please review this patch and accept this or write better patch?
>>
>> Thank you in advance.
>>



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