Re: [wmii] problem with 3.6 installation under MacOSX

* Joerg van den Hoff <j.van_den_hoff_AT_fzd.de> [071219 11:02]:
> hi there,
>
> first time mail to this list: I noted today that the wmii
> package unfortenuately is orphaned in `macports', the
> package management system of MacOS X.
>
> for now, I tried a source install and ran into problems. I
> got `dmenu' and libixp-0.4 installed. but
>
> make configure
> make
>
> for `wmii' yielded:
>
> =================CUT====================
> ...
> MAKE all cmd/
> CC cmd/util.o
> CC cmd/wmii9menu.o
> LD cmd/wmii9menu.O
> FILTER cmd/wmii9rc.sh
> FILTER cmd/wmiiloop.sh
> CC cmd/wmiir.o
> LD cmd/wmiir.O
> /usr/bin/ld: can't locate file for: -lcrt0.o
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[1]: *** [wmiir.O] Error 1
> make: *** [dall] Error 2
> =================CUT====================
>
> does somebody have a hint how to fix this? mail archive
> seems not to include this problem.
>
>
> many thanks,
>
> joerg
>
> PS: if there's somebody out there able to take over
> maintance of the macports package (I'm not, I'm afraid...)
> that would be great of course. it should be similar to the
> FreeBSD ports system of which it derives. it would be nice
> to see the package maintained the more so as tuomo valkonen,
> the `ion3' author, is on the warpath again and has managed
> to get ion3 kicked out of several repositories, FreeBSD
> ports and macports among them. so people will start looking
> for alternatives, as I am doing right now. and as I learned
> only recently, MacOS X installation base is much larger
> (factor five or so?) than all the rest (Unixes + Linuxes)
> combined. and quite some people use these machines with
> fullscreen X11, too.
>
>

Interresting that someone apart from me is
actually running WMII on MacOS X. This
combination will probably bring tears to the
eyes of any truean MAC lover!

Anyway, I'm still using the 3.1-version
provided by macports, and unfortunately don't
qualify for the maintance of the package at
all! Trying to compile the 3.6 version I get
a different problem still:

(Sorry about the long log, I simply don't
know, which of the informations are important).

----------CUT-----------------
zsh/4 39 % make
MAKE all libutf/
MAKE all libfmt/
MAKE all libbio/
MAKE all libregexp/
MAKE all cmd/
CC cmd/wmiir.o
cmd/wmiir.c:11:17: error: ixp.h: No such file or directory
cmd/wmiir.c:15: error: parse error before '*' token
cmd/wmiir.c:15: warning: type defaults to 'int' in declaration of 'client'
cmd/wmiir.c:15: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
cmd/wmiir.c:28: warning: implicit declaration of function 'ixp_errbuf'
cmd/wmiir.c:28: warning: passing argument 2 of 'fmtstrcpy' makes pointer from integer without a cast
cmd/wmiir.c:33: error: parse error before '*' token
cmd/wmiir.c:33: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype
cmd/wmiir.c:37: error: 'fid' undeclared
cmd/wmiir.c:40: warning: implicit declaration of function 'ixp_write'
cmd/wmiir.c:41: error: 'name' undeclared
cmd/wmiir.c:49: error: 'Stat' undeclared
cmd/wmiir.c:49: error: 'st1' undeclared
cmd/wmiir.c:49: error: 'st2' undeclared
cmd/wmiir.c:49: warning: left-hand operand of comma expression has no effect
cmd/wmiir.c:49: warning: statement with no effect
cmd/wmiir.c:51: error: parse error before ')' token
cmd/wmiir.c:52: error: parse error before ')' token
cmd/wmiir.c:71: error: 'P9_DMDIR' undeclared
cmd/wmiir.c:91: error: parse error before '*' token
cmd/wmiir.c:91: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype
cmd/wmiir.c:92: error: 'lflag' undeclared
cmd/wmiir.c:94: error: 's' undeclared
cmd/wmiir.c:97: error: 'P9_DMDIR' undeclared
cmd/wmiir.c:107: error: 'IxpCFid' undeclared
cmd/wmiir.c:107: error: 'fid' undeclared
cmd/wmiir.c:116: warning: implicit declaration of function 'ixp_open'
cmd/wmiir.c:116: error: 'P9_OWRITE' undeclared
cmd/wmiir.c:121: warning: implicit declaration of function 'ixp_close'
cmd/wmiir.c:127: error: 'IxpCFid' undeclared
cmd/wmiir.c:127: error: 'fid' undeclared
cmd/wmiir.c:137: error: 'P9_OWRITE' undeclared
cmd/wmiir.c:166: error: 'IxpCFid' undeclared
cmd/wmiir.c:166: error: 'fid' undeclared
cmd/wmiir.c:175: warning: implicit declaration of function 'ixp_create'
cmd/wmiir.c:175: error: 'P9_OWRITE' undeclared
cmd/wmiir.c:179: error: 'P9_DMDIR' undeclared
cmd/wmiir.c:195: warning: implicit declaration of function 'ixp_remove'
cmd/wmiir.c:202: error: 'IxpCFid' undeclared
cmd/wmiir.c:202: error: 'fid' undeclared
cmd/wmiir.c:212: error: 'P9_OREAD' undeclared
cmd/wmiir.c:217: warning: implicit declaration of function 'ixp_read'
cmd/wmiir.c:229: error: 'IxpMsg' undeclared
cmd/wmiir.c:229: error: parse error before 'm'
cmd/wmiir.c:230: error: 'Stat' undeclared
cmd/wmiir.c:230: error: 'stat' undeclared
cmd/wmiir.c:231: error: 'IxpCFid' undeclared
cmd/wmiir.c:231: error: 'fid' undeclared
cmd/wmiir.c:251: warning: implicit declaration of function 'ixp_stat'
cmd/wmiir.c:255: error: 'P9_DMDIR' undeclared
cmd/wmiir.c:257: warning: implicit declaration of function 'ixp_freestat'
cmd/wmiir.c:262: error: 'P9_OREAD' undeclared
cmd/wmiir.c:271: error: 'm' undeclared
cmd/wmiir.c:271: warning: implicit declaration of function 'ixp_message'
cmd/wmiir.c:271: error: 'MsgUnpack' undeclared
cmd/wmiir.c:277: warning: implicit declaration of function 'ixp_pstat'
cmd/wmiir.c:335: warning: implicit declaration of function 'ixp_mount'
cmd/wmiir.c:335: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
cmd/wmiir.c:346: warning: implicit declaration of function 'ixp_unmount'
make[1]: *** [wmiir.o] Error 1
make: *** [dall] Error 2
zsh: exit 2 make
----------CUT-----------------

Greetings,

David

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