[Insight-developers] MAC Compile errors

[Luis Ibanez]

Hi Sean,


   Now that we know that the actual
   problem is a bug in CMake,

   I have to swallow my insulting words to Apple   :-/



     Regards,


         Luis



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Sean McBride wrote:
> On 7/14/08 11:08 AM, Luis Ibanez said:
> 
> 
>>The submissions from
>>
>>
>>                     "mini1.nlm"
>>                     "mini2.nlm"
>>
>>http://www.cdash.org/CDash/viewBuildError.php?buildid=123006
>>http://www.cdash.org/CDash/viewBuildError.php?buildid=122976
>>
>>
>>are still reporting the type "A" compilation errors of the form:
>>
>>*SNIP*
>>
> 
> 
> Why do we suspect this is an Apple bug?  Maybe I am confused, but Hans
> said that the build works if he uses CMake's 'unix makefiles' generator
> instead of its 'Xcode' generator.  Wouldn't that make it more likely to
> be a CMake bug?
> 
> 
>>Overall, it seems that with this upgrade, Apple have succeded
>>to make GCC as bad as Visual Studio 6.0.
> 
> 
> Which upgrade?  I find it unlikely that the 10.5.4 upgrade would cause
> this.  The gcc version is unaffected by the Mac OS X version.  gcc does
> not get changed by the 10.5.4 upgrade, nor do system .h files.
> 
> 
>>Is there an expectation that APPLE will fix this anytime soon ?
> 
> 
> If it is an Apple bug, it will only get fixed if we file a bug in their
> bug database.  I could do that, but we'd need simpler repro steps...
>