Re: [Tack-devel] ACK compiles on NetBSD-macppc, sort of...

[David G. <dg...@co...>]

Gregory T. (tim) Kelly wrote:
[...]
> And it might well be an interesting part of the code.  The conditional
> failing is #ifdef __lint__.  As far as I can tell, all of the Makefiles=
 use
> ACK's lint rather than the host-provided (Unix) lint.  Additionally, th=
e
> path to the failed conditional indicates _GNUC_ is _not_ defined.

I strongly suspect that the ACK lint is picking up the NetBSD include fil=
es
(which are gcc specific), and not the ACK include files (which aren't)...=
 you
may want to have a look at first/lint_params, which contains the lint
parameters (personally, I'd suggest turning it off completely).

[...]
> (Fully noting that David Given is in charge of the project and I don't =
mean
> to imply any insertion of myself in the decision-making process.  I'm
> looking at ACK for its stated purpose - a portable compiler kit.)

Well, 'in charge' is possibly a bit strong...

(PS. Incidentally, Tim, is there any chance you could persuade your email=
 app
to line-wrap your messages, please? It's making you rather hard to quote!=
)

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