R devel - Aug 2012 - compile fails with x86_64-alpine-linux-uclibc-gcc

hello,

i am trying to build R on alpine/gentoo with uclibc and it fails with the
following
error msg:

connections.c: In function 'Rconn_fgetc':
connections.c:3184:11: error: expected identifier before '(' token
connections.c:3186:15: error: expected identifier before '(' token
make[3]: *** [connections.o] Error 1

here is the whole build log :http://bpaste.net/show/39955/
any idea?

i've *walked* back the versions down to 2.14.1 and i still get exact same
error msg.
there are some patches applied but none of them touches connections.c, i
think. in any case i can provide the patches if need be.

thanks

On Aug 12, 2012, at 11:45 PM, nobody wrote:
> hello,
> 
> i am trying to build R on alpine/gentoo with uclibc and it fails with the
following
> error msg:
> 
> connections.c: In function 'Rconn_fgetc':
> connections.c:3184:11: error: expected identifier before '(' token
> connections.c:3186:15: error: expected identifier before '(' token
> make[3]: *** [connections.o] Error 1
> 
> here is the whole build log :http://bpaste.net/show/39955/
> any idea?
> 
I suspect that your runtime/libc is defining fgetc as a macro which breaks any
code that uses it as an identifier. Ideally, your runtime should be fixed to use
a proper function, but you could probably work around it with something like

static char * fix_fgets(char *s, int n, FILE *stream) { return fgets(s, n,
stream); }
#undef fgets
static char * fgets(char *s, int n, FILE *stream) { return fix_fgets(s, n,
stream); }

Cheers,
Simon


> i've *walked* back the versions down to 2.14.1 and i still get exact
same
> error msg.
> there are some patches applied but none of them touches connections.c, i
> think. in any case i can provide the patches if need be.
> 
> thanks
> 
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