Re: Visual bell patch for emacs on OSX

["Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>]

Hello.

21 dec 2013 kl. 01:11 skrev João Távora <joaotavora@gmail.com>:

> Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se> writes:
> 
>> 17 dec 2013 kl. 03:11 skrev Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>:
>> 
>>>> Or would I have to rewrite it to work equally well on GNUstep?
>>> 
>>> That would be sweet,
>>> 
>> 
>> That is most likely impossible.  GNUStep lacks a lot of API-functions
>> compared to Cocoa.
> 
> Is it really impossible to momentarily (and portably) flash the
> header-line/ echo-area in the GNUstep build?
> 

It can be done, but not by simple XOR-ing as is done on other ports.

> I heroically tried, but failed miserably right away. Building for
> GNUstep (--with-ns) errors out in this compilation unit:
> 
>   gcc -std=gnu99 -c -Demacs -I. -I. -I../lib -I./../lib -D_REENTRANT -fPIC \
>   -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/include/GNUstep -I/usr/local/include/GNUstep \
>   -I/usr/include/alsa -pthread -I/usr/include/librsvg-2.0                  \
>   -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include     \
>   -I/usr/include/gdk-pixbuf-2.0 -I/usr/include/cairo                       \
>   -I/usr/include/libpng12 -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/freetype2 \
>   -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/include/dbus-1.0                           \
>   -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dbus-1.0/include -MMD -MF deps/nsterm.d -MP  \
>   -I/usr/include/p11-kit-1 -g3 -O2 -fobjc-exceptions -fgnu-runtime         \
>   -Wno-import -fconstant-string-class=NSConstantString                     \
>   -DGNUSTEP_BASE_LIBRARY=1 -DGNU_GUI_LIBRARY=1 -DGNU_RUNTIME=1 -DGSWARN    \
>   -DGSDIAGNOSE nsterm.m
> 
> Many errors, at least in today's and recent git clonings
> 
>   nsterm.m:6075:1: error: trying to encode non-integer type as a
>   bitfield

The GNUStep port compiled fine a couple of days ago, but after that there has been bitfield changes that apparently was not tested.  I'll file a bug report.

	Jan D.