Re: [Help-smalltalk] Problem building GST Gtk package on Ubuntu Edgy

[Paolo Bonzini]

Sam Phillips wrote:
> On 4/5/07, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > My guess is that the gst syntax doesn't like '*' as the initial
> > > character of a variable symbol.
> >
> > Yes, the parameter name should have been "str" (munged from "*str"),
> > it is one byte off.
> >
> > > Is this a known bug?
> >
> > No, it is new.  Can you send me your gdate.h header file?
>
> It doesn't just seem to be messing with the gdate functions I've also
> gotten this gem in my gtk/Funcs.st generated:
>
> !GOptionContext methodsFor: 'C call-outs'!
> parse: *arg ***a: ***a **err: **err
>    <cCall: 'g_option_context_parse' returning: #boolean
>        args: #( #self #cObject #cObject #cObject )>! !
>
> Most of the functions that use any kind of pointer type seem to be
> rewritten strangely.

I cannot reproduce this.  Can you:

1) "grep AWK gtk/Makefile" to see which awk implementation you're using

2) do a "gawk --version" (where gawk is the output of the previous
command actually) to see what version it is.

My version is "GNU Awk 3.1.5".

Paolo