[Vm-dev] Re: Cog build fails on 10.6

[Eliot Miranda]

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Henrik Sperre Johansen <
henrik.s.johansen at veloxit.no> wrote:

>  On 12.08.2010 19:31, Eliot Miranda wrote:
>
> Hi Henrik,
>
>      see the thread [Vm-dev] Error compiling cog for MacOS 10.6 round
> about July 30th.
>
>  HTH
> Eliot
>
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 7:29 AM, Henrik Johansen <
> henrik.s.johansen at veloxit.no> wrote:
>
>> In sqUnixVMProfile.c, it fails on include of ucontext.h , it's deprecated
>> and (as long as you're not using the functions, as implied by the "to get
>> register defines in sys/ucontext.h" comment) sys/ucontext.h should be
>> included instead.
>>
>> Googled a bit, and it seems RedHat 7.3 throws a fit instead if you do that
>> though...
>> http://code.google.com/p/google-perftools/issues/detail?id=218
>>
>> Any change of a workaround? ;)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Henry
>
>
>  Ah yes, I missed your post there and just remembered the conclusion as
> "Use 10.5 as platform". :/
>
> My point was, it's just the context manipulation functions
> (get/set/make/swap) in ucontext.h which are deprecated.
> The ucontext struct and its fields, defined in sys/ucontext.h (and used in
> histogramSIGPROFhandler), is not.
>
> Thus I fail to see why one would have to find an entirely new way to do
> this on OSX (or if one even exists), instead of changing the include.
>

Does changing the include to sys/ucontext.h work?  If so, mail me the
patched file and I'll integrate it.


>
> Cheers,
> Henry
>
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