[Roadster] Issues compiling Roadster on Mac OS X: mainwindow.c throws "parameter name omitted" errors

[Ian McIntosh]

Jeff,

Have you successfully compiled Roadster on OSX?

-Ian

El vie, 10-02-2006 a las 06:45 -0600, Jeff Garrett escribió:
> > Now, the big Lebowsky.. "make"
> > 
> > make > make.log &
> > 
> > The process goes on for a minute or so then dies in mainwindow.c with  
> > the following trainwreck of errors:
> > 
> > mainwindow.c: In function  
> > 'mainwindow_locationset_list_is_separator_callback':
> > mainwindow.c:506: error: parameter name omitted
> > mainwindow.c: In function 'mainwindow_on_window_state_change':
> > mainwindow.c:1391: error: parameter name omitted
> > mainwindow.c: In function 'mainwindow_on_expose_event':
> > mainwindow.c:1513: error: parameter name omitted
> > mainwindow.c: In function 'mainwindow_on_gps_show_position_toggled':
> > mainwindow.c:1534: error: parameter name omitted
> [and more of the same...]
> 
> > Dropping back to gcc 3.3 doesn't solve the problem. Since nobody  
> > building on Linux has reported this, my guess is (without looking  
> > carefully at the code) that there that Apple's gcc4 doesn't like  
> > what's being done here. Any suggestions about how to get around these  
> > errors?
> 
> Each of those functions has a parameter called __unused.  On Linux, by
> happenstance this name isn't being used by anything (even though it's
> reserved).  On Darwin, in sys/cdefs.h it is defined to be a certain
> GCC-specific construction and thus can't serve as the parameter name.
> 
> Try applying the attached patch.  It renames all the identifiers I could
> find in live code starting with __.
> 
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