Re: Compile error on Mac OS X

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Sunday 15 May 2005 11:31 am, Per Persson wrote:
> I'm on 10.4 now and the following change to post.h seems to fix the
> build problems:
>
> --- term/post.h 2 Mar 2005 19:44:57 -0000       1.7
> +++ term/post.h 15 May 2005 18:20:22 -0000
> @@ -85,6 +85,6 @@
> #define EPSLATEX_HCHAR (11*PS_SC*6/10)
> /* additional LaTeX header information for epslatex terminal */
> -extern char *epslatex_header;
> +TERM_PUBLIC char *epslatex_header;
> #endif /* TERM_POST_H */

It should be defined consistently, so please change it to 
TERM_PUBLIC in pslatex.trm also:

===========================================================================
--- gnuplot/term/pslatex.trm    2005-05-09 22:51:37.000000000 -0700
+++ gnuplot-cvs/term/pslatex.trm        2005-05-15 12:10:49.937075896 -0700
@@ -99,6 +99,9 @@
 TERM_PUBLIC void EPSLATEX_put_text __PROTO((unsigned int x, unsigned int 
y, const char *str));
 TERM_PUBLIC void EPSLATEX_linetype __PROTO((int linetype));

+/* additional LaTeX header information for epslatex terminal */
+TERM_PUBLIC char *epslatex_header = NULL;
+
 #endif /* TERM_PROTO */


@@ -116,9 +119,6 @@

 static struct pstex_text_command *pstex_labels = NULL;

-/* additional LaTeX header information for epslatex terminal */
-static char *epslatex_header = NULL;
-
 /* Common functions for epslatex and ps(la)tex */


===========================================================================

> Am I right in assuming that using the 'extern' qualifier in post.h,
> which will be pulled into term.c with the rest of the terminal stuff,
> was never strictly correct and that gcc 4.0 now returns an error?

It was never correct, insofar as this variable was never needed outside
of the terminal drivers.  But I don't see how gcc could know that.
gcc is just complaining that the two declarations, static and extern, 
are inconsistent.

-- 
Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington 98195-7742