Tim, It appears that gcc will not be supporting the use of varargs.h any more. They suggest using stdarg.h. This is fine, I had started to do that in my last patch. However, I am now stuck with the integer version that is patched but I can not compile. I've uploaded it to the fractint directory. Would you please compile it and let me know if it is okay? Is there any need to maintain the ability to use varargs.h? I had not thought of that when I was doing the last patch, but I can fix it if we need to keep the varargs.h code in place. Jonathan
Jonathan wrote:
It appears that gcc will not be supporting the use of varargs.h any more. They suggest using stdarg.h. This is fine, I had started to do that in my last patch. However, I am now stuck with the integer version that is patched but I can not compile. I've uploaded it to the fractint directory. Would you please compile it and let me know if it is okay?
Not clear which file you wanted me to compile. I downloaded the latest one in the fractint directly, the xfractint file. It did not compile under Mandrake because of varargs as you said, but it compiled fine under Red Hat, which apparently isn't as aggressive about updating. Didn't work under Fedora. I have the latest official versions of all these distributions.
Is there any need to maintain the ability to use varargs.h? I had not thought of that when I was doing the last patch, but I can fix it if we need to keep the varargs.h code in place.
As long as we can compile both the xfractint and fractint versions with the same sources, I don't see why we need varargs. Tim
Would you please compile it and let me know if it is okay?
I uploaded the xfractint and hc binaries to the fractint directory at mandy. I don't know if you can run them on Suse, but give it a try. Realize that I didn't test them extensively, just generated a couple of fractals. The binaries are just the result of unarchiving your files and typing "make". Guess I should have uploaded the compiled help also. Let me know if you need it. Tim
On Tuesday 03 February 2004 10:39 pm, Tim Wegner wrote:
Would you please compile it and let me know if it is okay?
I uploaded the xfractint and hc binaries to the fractint directory at mandy. I don't know if you can run them on Suse, but give it a try. Realize that I didn't test them extensively, just generated a couple of fractals. The binaries are just the result of unarchiving your files and typing "make".
Guess I should have uploaded the compiled help also. Let me know if you need it.
Yes, it made it to the list. Thanks, that is all I needed. The binaries work fine on my system. I've moved the source to the linux directory and now have to create the diff and upload it. Then, on to the first patch. Part of the reason for asking about varargs.h, is that we can conveniently set up the ability for a future configuration/automake system to use varargs.h if stdarg.h is not available because all (well, most) of the required code is still in place. I just need to change the #ifdef XFRACT to #ifdef NO_STDARG_H. Jonathan
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