[BRLTTY] Burlap and OS X
rmgls
rmgls at orange.fr
Fri Mar 31 15:42:08 EDT 2017
Thanks Dave as I said to Cheryl,
It compile fine now.
Regards
Raoul
Rmgls at orange.fr
> On Mar 31, 2017, at 5:47 PM, Dave Mielke <dave at mielke.cc> wrote:
>
> [quoted lines by rmgls on 2017/03/31 at 07:51 +0200]
>
>> is brlapi supposed to build on OS X?
>
> It certainly should build for OS X, but sonmetimes changes are made which cause
> unexpected build problems on platforms other than Linux.
>
>> if yes, sysmacros.h does not exist on this platform and, brltty does not build.
>
> Thanks for reporting this. I've removed that #include from brlapi_client.c so
> the latest development code should build again.
>
> I'm not sure why it was added to brlapi_client. It needed to be added to
> Linux-specific code because the makedev macro was moved there, but
> brlapi_client doesn't use the makedev macro.
>
>> Is there something like --disable-brlapi in configure,
>
> If you really need it, yes, you can configure with --disable-api.
>
>> or even #IF DEFINED DARWIN!!! somewhere?
>
> If it were ultimately necessary then, yes, that, too, could be done. A better
> way would be to test for the needed macro(s) and include sysmacros.h if any of
> them are missing.
>
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