Re: Building on OS X

[Hugo Wolf <hwolf@deutsches.lieder.net>]

In article <8465tghj53.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de>, Kai Großjohann wrote:
> On the emacs-devel mailing list there was some discussion about
> building on MacOS X failing with the most recent developer tools.  

The problem reported by the OP has nothing to do with this issue.
Either some new bug has arisen in the cvs sources since 21-Dec or
whatever he encountered was the result of user error.



> I
> don't remember the outcome, but maybe the CVS repository has a fix
> already.

Doesn't look like it.  

The patch for this can be found in the usual place:

  http://members.shaw.ca/akochoi-emacs/


It's small enough to include here:

--- unexmacosx.c.~1.3.~	Mon Dec  2 09:22:04 2002
+++ unexmacosx.c	Sat Dec 21 21:44:48 2002
@@ -638,7 +638,8 @@
       else if (strncmp (sectp->sectname, "__la_symbol_ptr", 16) == 0
 	       || strncmp (sectp->sectname, "__nl_symbol_ptr", 16) == 0
 	       || strncmp (sectp->sectname, "__dyld", 16) == 0
-	       || strncmp (sectp->sectname, "__const", 16) == 0)
+	       || strncmp (sectp->sectname, "__const", 16) == 0
+	       || strncmp (sectp->sectname, "__cfstring", 16) == 0)
 	{
 	  if (!unexec_copy (sectp->offset, old_file_offset, sectp->size))
 	    unexec_error ("cannot copy section %s", sectp->sectname);