[XML-SIG] 4suite build troubles

[Mike Olson]

Just van Rossum wrote:

Just,

  Can you try building the 0.11.1b3?  Its not an offical release yet,
but is pretty close.  We put a lot of work into the parsers (which is
where you are seeing the compile errors).  We do still use strdup
though....

If you can't use the beta, then I can try to help you with this
problems.  though I'm not sure why these symols would only be multiply
defined on the Mac.

Mike

> 
> I have some assorted troubles building 4suite for MacOS. First thing I noticed
> that several C extensions use strdup(). Unfortunately the Metrowerks compiler
> doesn't have strdup(). If I understand it correctly, strdup() is *not* ANSI C,
> so for portability, using it is an error. I've worked around the problem for
> now.
> 
> Then, when I build XPathc, I get the following link errors:
> 
> Link Error   : multiply-defined 'g_errorTraceback' (data)
> Defined in XPath_wrap.c
> Defined in XPathSwig.c
> 
> Link Error   : multiply-defined 'g_errorValue' (data)
> Defined in XPath_wrap.c
> Defined in XPathSwig.c
> 
> Link Error   : multiply-defined 'g_errorType' (data)
> Defined in XPath_wrap.c
> Defined in XPathSwig.c
> 
> Link Error   : multiply-defined 'g_prodNum' (data)
> Defined in XPath_wrap.c
> Defined in XPathSwig.c
> 
> Link Error   : multiply-defined 'g_errorOccured' (data)
> Defined in XPath_wrap.c
> Defined in XPathSwig.c
> 
> Link Error   : multiply-defined 'g_errorLocation' (data)
> Defined in XPath_wrap.c
> Defined in XPathSwig.c
> 
> Am I doing something wrong here?
> 
> On another note, even PyXML doesn't build out of the box with distutils on the
> Mac. Seems to have to do with path names that should get converted to Mac paths.
> Whether this is a bug in the Mac backend of distutils or not I don't know yet --
> I'll look into it further.
> 
> Just
> 
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