Re: libsspamc.c syntax error with IBM xlc

[Bill Barnes]

I took your advice and opened up a ticket. The problem is that IBM's xlc v6.0 doesn't like C++ style comments even tho' the C99 standard allows it. Perhaps xlc v7.0 will be happier. If not gcc gives good service or you can apply this patch: http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/attachment.cgi?id=3119&action=""> Bill Loren Wilton wrote: You should open a bugzilla ticket on this.           Loren ----- Original Message ----- From: Bill Barnes To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 11:25 AM Subject: libsspamc.c syntax error with IBM xlc I have get the following error when trying to install SpamAssassin v3.0.4:  ==========  spamc/spamc.c: spamc/libspamc.c: "spamc/libspamc.c", line 1303.9: 1506-046 (S) Syntax error. "spamc/libspamc.c", line 1303.12: 1506-045 (S) Undeclared identifier create. "spamc/libspamc.c", line 1307.9: 1506-046 (S) Syntax error. spamc/utils.c: make: *** [spamc/spamc] Error 1 ========== The environment is:    AIX v5.3.0.2                                   GNU make v3.80                                   Perl v5.8.2                                   IBM xlc v6.0 compiler                                   ksh for the shell. same problem with SpamAssassin v3.0.3 same problem installing manually or with CPAN. I tried the manual install setting the environment variable  CC to /usr/bin/gcc    (gcc v3.3.5) and got exactly the same errors and error codes, which was odd. So, I checked the Makefile that is produced by perl Makefile.PL and found that  CC is forced to "cc_r", which was in my path linked to xlc (/usr/vac/bin/xlc). So I set CC  in Makefile to /usr/bin/gcc and got a clean "make test".  What this probably means is that to install SpamAssassin on AIX using CPAN your will need to get cc_r in your path pointed to gcc before hand or install it manually with a twiddle to Makefile to get it to use gcc. Bill Barnes