Re: [q-lang-users] q 7.11 build fails on Mac OS X 10.3.9

[Albert G. <Dr....@t-...>]

Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> GLOB_NOMATCH is required by POSIX, so it looks like the local glob
>> implementation is broken or too old. What does your 10.3.9 glob(3)
>> manpage say about the return value of glob()?
> 
> The manpage is attached.

Thanks. The 10.3.9 glob is obviously non-POSIX, as POSIX clearly
requires GLOB_NOMATCH, see:

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/glob.html

So you need to patch clib.c on OSX 10.3.9 to work around this. AFAICT
from the manpage, the following edit should make clib compile on this
OSX version, and glob should still give the intended results in case of
matching failure:

Replace lines 6077-6079 in clib.c:

    if (res == GLOB_NOMATCH)
      return mknil;
    else if (res)

with just:

    if (res)

(Note that I can't just commit this to the official Q sources, since it
would break clib::glob on POSIX-conforming platforms.)

HTH,
Albert

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