Re: DJGPP - Configure errors

[Salvador E. T. <sal...@in...>]

Thiago F.G. Albuquerque wrote:

>> > On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Salvador Eduardo Tropea wrote:
>> > > > ... that in this case include/tv/nointl.h is used where:
>> > > > > static char       *getTextNew(const char *msgid, Boolean 
>> onlyIntl=False)
>> > >                   { return onlyIntl ? NULL : newStr(msgid); };
>> >                                                                ^
>> > That's the problem!--------------------------------------------|
>> > (sorry for those using proportional fonts :)
>> > > I removed this ';' after the closing bracket and it solved the 
>> problem.
>> > I am sending a patch attached.
>>
>> Ugh!! that's quite bizarre, a bug in the compiler? Why? The same 
>> class have the same on other members ...
>
>
> Yes, but this semi-colon shouldn't be there anyway:

Empty lines are allowed in C and C++, this semicolon is an empty line, 
just like this:

void pp()
{
}

// Next is empty
;

> this is a definition, not a declaration. Think about it: if this was a 
> "normal" function -- a function defined ouside the class declaration 
> -- you wouldn't put a semi-colon after the body, would you? And that 
> may explain the unresolved reference error: because of the semi-colon, 
> the compiler saw this as a declaration, and look for the definition 
> elsewhere. As he didn't find it...


> And yes, all the other methods in this class are defined the same way: 
> so why the compiler would give an error only with this one? The only 
> explanation I can come up with is that the other methods are not used 
> (is this true?), so the linker doesn't look for them.


Nope, you are wrong, that's a bug in the compiler.

>
>> This is part of pathtool.cc, it seems to be missing and is only used 
>> by DOS. I'm fixing it, patch attached.
>
>
> Thank you. I had some difficulties applying the patch. It failed in 
> hunk #2, because in my version of the file, "#include <pathtool.h> // 
> IsADirectory" is in a different position. So I deleted hunk 2, applied 
> the patch and then removed this line manually. Everything compiled fine.


Where did you get the sources? I'm using CVS code as reference.

> There is a bug in the editor involving tabs. I'll start another thread 
> to talk about this.
>
Ok.

SET

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