Re: Problems compiling gpsd 2.37 on Fedora 7 x86_64

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On Wednesday 19 March 2008 10:42:44 Jerry James wrote:
> >  Any ideas what might be going on here?
>
> This is what happens when a macro is defined inside a macro
> invocation.  The "snprintf" function is actually a macro, and the gpsd
> code is trying to define a new macro, ZEROIZE, right in the middle of
> the parameter list.  The expansion of the snprintf macro happens
> before ZEROIZE gets defined, so the final expansion still has the
> ZEROIZE tokens in it.  This is an upstream bug.  They've got to move
> the ZEROIZE definition to before the snprintf call.
>
> I know this because I made the same mistake in the XEmacs code. :-)

Thanks Jerry, I'll bring this up with upstream and see what they say.

-Doug

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