[Xmlstar-devel] Can't build 1.4.2 from git repository

[Filipe F. <ffe...@gm...>]

Hello,

I've been able to reliably build 1.3.x versions from the git repository in
the past, but I can no longer build 1.4.x when I checkout git tags.

I go through the normal routine..

$ autoreconf -sif
$ ./configure
$ make

At the `make` command it complains of the following...

$ make
make  all-am
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/ffernand/src/.interest/xmlstar'
  CC     src/trans.o
version.h: #define VERSION "1.4.2"
  CC     src/xml.o
  CC     src/xml_C14N.o
  CC     src/xml_depyx.o
  CC     src/xml_edit.o
  CC     src/xml_elem.o
  CC     src/xml_escape.o
  CC     src/xml_format.o
  CC     src/xml_ls.o
src/xml_ls.c: In function ‘xml_print_dir’:
src/xml_ls.c:140:9: warning: ignoring return value of ‘chdir’, declared
with attribute warn_unused_result [-Wunused-result]
  CC     src/xml_pyx.o
  CC     src/xml_select.o
  CC     src/xml_trans.o
  CC     src/xml_validate.o
  GEN    src/usage.c
  CC     src/usage.o
  GEN    src/c14n-usage.c
  CC     src/c14n-usage.o
  GEN    src/depyx-usage.c
  CC     src/depyx-usage.o
  GEN    src/edit-usage.c
  CC     src/edit-usage.o
  GEN    src/elem-usage.c
  CC     src/elem-usage.o
  GEN    src/escape-usage.c
  CC     src/escape-usage.o
  GEN    src/format-usage.c
  CC     src/format-usage.o
  GEN    src/ls-usage.c
  CC     src/ls-usage.o
  GEN    src/pyx-usage.c
  CC     src/pyx-usage.o
  GEN    src/select-usage.c
  CC     src/select-usage.o
src/select-usage.c:55:233: warning: multi-character character constant
[-Wmultichar]
src/select-usage.c:55:1: error: stray ‘\’ in program
src/select-usage.c:55:1: warning: overflow in implicit constant conversion
[-Woverflow]
src/select-usage.c:55:239: error: expected ‘}’ before ‘n’
src/select-usage.c:55:240: warning: missing terminating ' character
[enabled by default]
src/select-usage.c:55:239: error: missing terminating ' character
make[1]: *** [src/select-usage.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ffernand/src/.interest/xmlstar'
make: *** [all] Error 2


I looked at line 55 of src/select-usage.c and it does contain the character
'\', which I believe in C should be '\\'.  src/select-usage.c appears to be
auto-generated using the script usage2c.awk script.

filipe