defining madness
Nick Thompson
I'm feeling incredulous after my latest attempt to build KDE from CVS on
Solaris. Now that Sun have finally fixed the X header files so that they
conform to ANSI C standards, they seem to have slipped in a mind
boggling piece of code to make life difficult. In sys/socket.h, they
have:
#define connect __xnet_connect
This is because the socket 'connect' function is really called
'__xnet_connect' (there are others like this too). But in KDE, in many
places and quite legally, a method called connect is defined/used to
connect slots to signals. If socket.h is not included, then this works
as expected, but if socket.h is included, the C preprocessor replaces
EVERY occurrence of a connect string with __xnet_connect!!! Ahggg.
Surely this is a brain dead idea?! Certainly it means I can no longer
build KDE. The best work around I've been able to come up with is:
file mysocket.h:
#include <sys/socket.h>
#undef connect
static int (*connect)(int, const sockaddr*, unsigned
int)=__xnet_connect;
...but this creates an instance of the variable connect in every file
that uses socket.h. How about:
#include <sys/socket.h>
#undef connect
static int connect(int a, const sockaddr* b, unsigned int c) {return
xnet_connect(a, b, c);}
...and hope the optimizer sorts of the inefficiency of adding a wrapper.
Has anybody else come across this or got any suggestions?
</rant>,
Nick.
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Rick Sivernell
Nick
Which Solaris IA86 or sun. I have IA Solaris 8 and would like to put kde2
on it. If you have a successfull install you might want to write a step x
step for it and put it on the caldera users list.
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