[vtk-developers] Patch for Xcode 1.5/carbon on midworld about scalbl().

[David Cole]

If you commit this, it will fix it on Krondor, too, where it happened to
show up this morning.....

So, go for it. It keeps us from having to hack system headers as root.

:-)


On 7/18/07, Sean McBride <sean at rogue-research.com> wrote:
>
> On 7/17/07 11:55 PM, Francois Bertel said:
>
> >On midworld,
> >I patched /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/
> >CarbonCore.framework/Headers
> >
> >according to this message:
> >
> >http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/vtkusers/2006-July/086017.html
> >
> >in order to fix the following error after reinstalling Xcode 1.5 on it:
> >
> >http://www.vtk.org/Testing/Sites/midworld.kitware/DarwinG5-c++-carbon/
> >20070717-0300-Nightly/BuildError.html
>
> Hi François,
>
> Thanks for updating midworld and keeping an eye on it!
>
> Hacking system headers is not ideal. :)  It may break other software,
> and it requires root access.  Perhaps there is a better way.  I compared
> the 10.3 and 10.4 SDKs looking for 'scalb' and there are many insights.
> The 10.4 SDK contains this nugget in wxPython_int.h:
>
> #ifdef __WXMAC__  // avoid a bug in Carbon headers
> #define scalb scalbn
> #endif
>
> I suggest we do the same, it is probably most correct, as it made it
> into the 10.4 SDK.  Patch attached.  I can't test on 10.3, but I will
> commit it anyway if no one objects.
>
> --
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