Compile error on Mac OS X 10.8.4, with gcc version 4.2.1.

[Dongle Su]

I first run ./configure, it's OK and says:

checking build system type... x86_64-apple-darwin12.4.0

checking host system type... x86_64-apple-darwin12.4.0

checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c

checking whether build environment is sane... yes

checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... autotools/install-sh -c -d

checking for gawk... no

checking for mawk... no

checking for nawk... no

checking for awk... awk

checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes

checking how to create a ustar tar archive... gnutar

checking for style of include used by make... GNU

checking for gcc... gcc

checking whether the C compiler works... yes

checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out

checking for suffix of executables... 

checking whether we are cross compiling... no

checking for suffix of object files... o

checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes

checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes

checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed

checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3

checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3

checking for gcc... (cached) gcc

checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes

checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes

checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... (cached) none needed

checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3

checking whether gcc and cc understand -c and -o together... yes

checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E

checking for g++... g++

checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes

checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes

checking dependency style of g++... gcc3

checking for ranlib... ranlib

checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep

checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E

checking for ANSI C header files... yes

checking for the pthreads library -lpthreads... no

checking whether pthreads work without any flags... yes

checking for joinable pthread attribute... PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE

checking if more special flags are required for pthreads... -D_THREAD_SAFE

checking for sys/types.h... yes

checking for sys/stat.h... yes

checking for stdlib.h... yes

checking for string.h... yes

checking for memory.h... yes

checking for strings.h... yes

checking for inttypes.h... yes

checking for stdint.h... yes

checking for unistd.h... yes

checking a.out.h usability... no

checking a.out.h presence... no

checking for a.out.h... no

configure: creating ./config.status

config.status: creating Makefile

config.status: creating src/config.h

config.status: executing depfiles commands

But when I run Make, It says:

depbase=`echo src/processor/basic_code_modules.o | sed 's|[^/]*$|.deps/&|;s|\.o$||'`;\

g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I./src  -I./src   -Werror=missing-braces -Werror=non-virtual-dtor -Werror=overloaded-virtual -Werror=reorder -Werror=sign-compare -Werror=unused-variable -Werror=vla  -g -O2 -MT src/processor/basic_code_modules.o -MD -MP -MF $depbase.Tpo -c -o src/processor/basic_code_modules.o src/processor/basic_code_modules.cc &&\

mv -f $depbase.Tpo $depbase.Po

cc1plus: error: -Werror=vla: No option -Wvla

make: *** [src/processor/basic_code_modules.o] Error 1

How can I fix this? 

[Ted Mielczarek]

This has been filed for a while: http://code.google.com/p/google-breakpad/issues/detail?id=489. The best workaround on Mac is to configure with CC=clang CXX=clang++, since GCC 4.2 is ancient and not well-supported.

-Ted