Re: gnulib fails for build on Mac OS X 10.4: get_ppid_of.c:36:22: error:

[Bruno Haible]

Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> MAC_OS_X_VERSION_MAX_ALLOWED is set for you based on what version of the SDK 
> you are using. ...
> 
> MAC_OS_X_VERSION_MIN_REQUIRED is set for you based on the default for the OS, 
> or the MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET environment variable if set, or the 
> -mmacosx-version-min compiler flag or the -macosx_version_min linker flag if 
> present. ...

Thanks for the advice.

> > Despite
> >  -DMAC_OS_X_VERSION_MAX_ALLOWED=1090 -DMAC_OS_X_VERSION_MIN_REQUIRED=1040
> > it produced code that would *not* run on Mac OS X 10.4.
> 
> Uh yeah you can't do that at all. You can check the values of 
> MAC_OS_X_VERSION_MAX_ALLOWED and MAC_OS_X_VERSION_MIN_REQUIRED in your code 
> but you don't set them like that on the command line.

But I need to be able to give some testing to the code before I commit it,
and installing 15 different versions of Xcode is not an option.

Next time, I'll try your advice, and see whether it works in my
environment.

Bruno