[R] 0.64.1 w/Gnome compile error

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Brian Kurotsuchi <bkurotsu at lug.ee.calpoly.edu> writes:

> /usr/include/libintl.h:25: parse error before `const'
> /usr/include/libintl.h:26: parse error before `const'
> /usr/include/libintl.h:27: parse error before `const'
> /usr/include/libintl.h:28: parse error before `const'
> /usr/include/libintl.h:29: parse error before `const'
> make: *** [devGNOME.o] Error 1
> 
> ----------
> Is this a problem or a result of my running the lastest and greatest version
> of GNOME?
> 
> I'm on Solaris 2.6 sparc, compiling with egcs 1.1.2.

It's a problem... possibly with gnome, though. I'm not going to try a
compile at this moment (although I do have access to Sol2.6, there's
no gnome on that machine), but the offending lines read:

    25  extern char *dcgettext(const char *, const char *, const int);
    26  extern char *dgettext(const char *, const char *);
    27  extern char *gettext(const char *);
    28  extern char *textdomain(const char *);
    29  extern char *bindtextdomain(const char *, const char *);

Errors like the ones you're getting generally comes from having
dcgettext() and friends previously defined as macros. This doesn't
seem to be happening anywhere in the R sources, so I'm suspecting
gnome.h... 

If you run the exact same gcc command but add the -E flag, you'll be
able to see exactly what the C preprocessor is doing to your code.

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