GCC44 fails to build in MacOSXServer

[Rodolfo Aramayo]

Thank you guys

Indeed removing the symlink did fix the problem clean

Thanks Again,

--Rodolfo




On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 00:30, Jason Swails <jason.swails at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 8:45 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Apr 18, 2011, at 21:15, Rodolfo Aramayo wrote:
>>
>> > I am getting the following error in MacOSXServer (Darwin 10.7.0 Darwin
>> > Kernel Version 10.7.0: Sat Jan 29 15:16:10 PST 2011;
>> > root:xnu-1504.9.37~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64):
>> [snip]
>> > --->  Building gcc44
>> [snip]
>> > :info:build ../../gcc-4.4.6/gcc/fortran/module.c:108: error:
>> > conflicting types for 'pointer_t'
>> > :info:build /usr/include/mach/vm_types.h:40: note: previous
>> > declaration of 'pointer_t' was here
>>
>> See this ticket:
>>
>> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/24541
>>
>> Two users there solved the problem by removing a symlink that they had
>> manually created for some other reason.
>
> This is probably unnecessary, but removing the malloc.h symlink I created in
> /usr/include fixed this problem for me as well.  What I had been doing
> before I learned about this fix was just comment out the definition of
> pointer_t in /usr/include/mach/vm_types.h, which also worked (but I would
> strongly suggest just removing the symlink).
>
> What I've heard from C programmers is that malloc.h should rarely (never?)
> be explicitly included anymore, anyway.  In any case, I think Apple omitted
> that header from /usr/include for a reason.
>
> All the best,
> Jason
>
> --
> Jason M. Swails
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