Package open-cobol not working for me

[Eric Gallager]

Sorry for not replying sooner, I was away for a Memorial Day vacation last
weekend, and once I got back, I was still trying to debug some kernel
panics that my computer had been experiencing, which meant I couldn't
really use it for email... anyway, on to the issue... open-cobol is
actually a source-to-source compiler (or "transpiler") that compiles to C
code, and then uses the host C compiler to compile the generated C code,
which means that something that looks like an open-cobol error might
actually be an error with your host compiler. By the error message, it
looks like OP is using the clang that comes with Mavericks/Xcode 5, which
has gotten overly strict about what it accepts recently, and which I do not
use anyways (because I am still on Snow Leopard), so I will not be able to
reproduce your error (my /opt/local/bin/cobc successfully compiles the
example source file into a runnable executable on my machine). That being
said, however, I suppose I can still try updating it to a newer version
anyways, seeing as livecheck says to do so as well... right now I am still
trying to get the new version to fetch properly... you could open a ticket
and assign it to me so we could have a more central place to work out this
update...



On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 6:37 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org>
wrote:

>
> On May 27, 2014, at 5:00 PM, Michael Peternell wrote:
>
> > I installed the "open-cobol" package but when I try to compile a program
> with it, it does not work:
> >
> > $ cobc hello.cob
> > clang: error: unknown argument: '-R/opt/local/lib'
> [-Wunused-command-line-argument-hard-error-in-future]
> > clang: note: this will be a hard error (cannot be downgraded to a
> warning) in the future
> >
> > (hello.cob is from here:
> http://www.opencobol.org/modules/bwiki/index.php?cmd=read&page=UserManual%2F1
> )
> >
> > I have written a detailed report of the issue here:
> > https://sourceforge.net/p/open-cobol/discussion/help/thread/e1b4af35/
> >
> > Is the open-cobol package working for anyone? If yes, what is different
> in your system configuration? If no, where can I file a bug report so that
> this package is fixed eventually?
>
> It looks like at configure time, open-cobol decides that the "-R" flag
> should be used. This and the compiler choice then get baked into cobc. The
> "-R" flag should not be used when the compiler does not support it. The
> developers of open-cobol should fix this. Or they may already have fixed it
> in version 2, to which we should update the port. Actually it looks like
> the project's name may have changed (or may be in the process of changing)
> to gnu-cobol; the 2.0 update may be an opportunity for us to rename the
> port. I'm Cc'ing Eric who maintains this port.
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