Porting problem on V5 with gettext/libintl

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Fri, 2004-09-10 at 18:44, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> I am attempting to port the current release of GnomeMeeting to FreeBSD
> and especially FreeBSD V5. I am not a C++ programmer and not much of a C
> programmer, so I am not surprised that I'm having a problem.
> 
> I have one module that uses gettext and I am getting errors on the
> inclusion of the libintl.h header file.
> 
> In file included from main_window.cpp:71:
> /usr/local/include/libintl.h:118: error: expected unqualified-id before "const"
> /usr/local/include/libintl.h:118: error: expected `)' before "const"
> /usr/local/include/libintl.h:118: error: expected init-declarator before "const"/usr/local/include/libintl.h:118: error: expected `,' or `;' before "const"
> /usr/local/include/libintl.h:134: error: expected unqualified-id before "const"
> /usr/local/include/libintl.h:134: error: expected `)' before "const"
> /usr/local/include/libintl.h:134: error: expected init-declarator before "const"/usr/local/include/libintl.h:134: error: expected `,' or `;' before "const"
> /usr/local/include/libintl.h:152: error: expected unqualified-id before "const"
> /usr/local/include/libintl.h:152: error: expected `)' before "const"
> /usr/local/include/libintl.h:152: error: expected init-declarator before "const"/usr/local/include/libintl.h:152: error: expected `,' or `;' before "const"
> /usr/local/include/libintl.h:233: error: expected unqualified-id before "const"
> /usr/local/include/libintl.h:233: error: expected `)' before "const"
> /usr/local/include/libintl.h:233: error: expected init-declarator before "const"/usr/local/include/libintl.h:233: error: expected `,' or `;' before "const"
> /usr/local/include/libintl.h:251: error: expected unqualified-id before "const"
> /usr/local/include/libintl.h:251: error: expected `)' before "const"
> /usr/local/include/libintl.h:251: error: expected init-declarator before "const"/usr/local/include/libintl.h:251: error: expected `,' or `;' before "const"
> /usr/local/include/libintl.h:269: error: expected unqualified-id before "const"
> /usr/local/include/libintl.h:269: error: expected `)' before "const"
> /usr/local/include/libintl.h:269: error: expected init-declarator before "const"/usr/local/include/libintl.h:269: error: expected `,' or `;' before "const"
> 
> The exact lines in the header file are very similar:
> 118: extern char *gettext (const char *__msgid)
>        _INTL_ASM (libintl_gettext);
> 
> 134: extern char *dgettext (const char *__domainname, const char *__msgid)
>        _INTL_ASM (libintl_dgettext);
> 
> 152: extern char *dcgettext (const char *__domainname, const char *__msgid,
> 			int __category)
>        _INTL_ASM (libintl_dcgettext);
> 
> 233: extern char *textdomain (const char *__domainname)
>        _INTL_ASM (libintl_textdomain);
> 
> 251: extern char *bindtextdomain (const char *__domainname, const char *__dirname)
>        _INTL_ASM (libintl_bindtextdomain);
> 
> 259: extern char *bind_textdomain_codeset (const char *__domainname,
> 				      const char *__codeset)
>        _INTL_ASM (libintl_bind_textdomain_codeset);
> 
> I do notice that all are #ifdefed to compile when _INTL_REDIRECT_INLINE
> is not defined.
> 
> Any idea what this is caused by? Do I need to include some things before
> including it? It clearly works OK on Linux, so it's either a gcc 3.4
> issue or a Linuxism nd I would suspect that it would have popped up on
> other ports.
> 
> Any clues?

I'm no C++ expert, but it looks like an extern C { ... } maybe required
around the libintl.h include.

Joe

> 
> Thanks!
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