[GNUnet-developers] MacOS X & other stuff

[Jussi Eloranta]

Hi,

Recently somebody asked about a problem with gnunet and macos x. 
Gnunetd was complaining that
something went wrong in semaphore.c. I was able to reproduce the 
problem and noticed that some
of the test programs gave that message as well but everything went OK 
otherwise (e.g. make check succeeded).
After looking at one of the test programs I noticed that the problem 
was that cron_handler never got initialized
to any non-zero value in util/cron.c and that PTHREAD_KILL was trying 
to killl something that did exist.
I believe all *BSD systems should give the same message but not Linux 
since it just silently ignores this
situation. Shouldn't cron_handle be initialized properly or am I 
missing something?

Few other things with the CVS version from yesterday:

1) Both Extractor and gnunet define symbol OPEN and the macos X linker 
chokes on this.
2) Extractor Makefile in src/plugins/ole2 have the following lines 
after configure:

# Ok, linking this one is complicated, see Mantis #787.
libextractor_ole2_la_LDFLAGS = \
 -Wl,-Bstatic -Wl,-lgobject-2.0 -Wl,-lglib-2.0 -Wl,-Bdynamic \
 -Wl,-Bsymbolic -avoid-version -module

On systems with non-gnu ld (like macos x) this will not work. Just 
setting this to empty seems to work.
What is this "hack" anyway?

Best regards,

Jussi Eloranta