Re: MetaHTML and the GCC web site

[Joel Sherrill <joel dot sherrill at oarcorp dot com>]

Dave Korn wrote:
> On 28 September 2007 17:10, François-Xavier Coudert wrote:
>
>   
> > PS: The compilation error I get, if that rings a bell to someone who
> > installed metahtml on the webserver, is in libmhtml:
> >
> > Compiling pagefuncs.c into pagefuncs.o
> > gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wshadow  -g  -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -
> > I../libutils -I../libutils/regex -I/tmp/gdbm-1.8.3/include  -I..-
> > DCOMPILE_TIME_MODULE_DIRECTORY='"/opt/metahtml-5.091/lib"' -c
> > pagefuncs.c
> > pagefuncs.c:1070:1: error: unterminated argument list invoking macro
> > "DEFINE_SECTION"
> > pagefuncs.c:135: error: parse error at end of input
> >
> > where pagefuncs.c contains at line 135:
> >
> > DEFINE_SECTION (PAGE-VARIABLES, , "[... here was multiline
> > text ...]", "[... and here was also multiline text
> > like that ...]")
> >     
>
>   I've never heard of metahtml, I don't have the sources, and I have
> absolutely no idea about what's going on here[*].  But one little flag did pop
> up at me:  sometime in that timeframe (i.e. since late '90s), we stopped
> supporting continuation of quoted text across line-ends without an escape,
> i.e. we used to accept
>
>     char *fred = "this is a 
> multi-line text 
> message\n";
>
> where now we require 
>
>     char *fred = "this is a \
> multi-line text \
> message\n";
>
> so maybe try escaping the line ends and see if that helps?
>   
That's the change that's required.  The RTEMS website is based
loosely on the gcc site and I had to make that change or maybe
Gerald sent me a patch.  I will forward what I got from Gerald to
you Francois.

--joel
>     cheers,
>       DaveK
> [*] - So, little change there then... ;-)
>