Re: Beginning compile problems

[Matthias.Apitz@SOFTCON.de]

David Schuetz wrote:
    
    I recently found a program on the net for faxes under NeXTSTEP, and from that  
    I discovered HylaFax.  Wanting greater control over my fax software (and not  
    needing answering machine features) I decided to try and compile HylaFax for  
    the NeXT.
    
    I've downloaded the latest gcc (2.7.2.2), and I *think* it compiled and  
    installed properly.  But I'm having a devil of a time getting it to work  
    right.
    
    So far I've had include problems with port.h (not liking extern defs of  
    opendir and cfsetispeed), configure (strftime and socket calls not found in  
    library searches--they're in NeXTish libs), syslog.c (couldn't find LOG_PERROR  
    or STDERR_FILENO), and problems finding new.h, std.h, and _G_config.h (NeXT  
    has them all in a g++ directory).

Try figuring out a way that ./configure checks the right places
(libs and include files) for your system and places the needed
defines into port.h (and please provide a patch for ./configure
which doesn't break anything else);

	matthias
    
    All those I kinda hacked around, and I figure they're okay, though they may  
    be indicative of more serious problems.  Right now I'm stuck on an error while  
    compiling RegExPtr.c++, which I've traced (with no help from gcc's error  
    message) to three lines in Array.c++:
    	ITEM * obj = new(ptr) ITEM;
    		and
    	ITEM * obj = new(q) ITEM(*p); [twice]
    Now, I'm comfortable (though by no means an expert) with Objective-C, but I  
    can't make heads or tails of this C++ stuff.  What exactly are these lines  
    trying to do? [in this case, ITEM turns out to be the class(?) RegExPtr].  Why  
    won't it compile? Here's the output of the make:
    ....
    = util
    /usr/local/bin/gcc  -I../../zlib -D__ANSI_CPP__ -I. -I.. -I../../util
      -I../../util -I/usr/local/include -I../../regex -g -O
      -x c++ -c ../../util/RegExArray.c++
    ../../util/RegExArray.c++:
      In method `void RegExArray::createElements(void *, unsigned int)':
      ../../util/RegExArray.c++:27:
        too many arguments for function `void * operator new(long unsigned int)'
    ../../util/RegExArray.c++:
      In method `void RegExArray::copyElements(const void *, void *, unsigned  
    int) const':
      ../../util/RegExArray.c++:27:
        too many arguments for function `void * operator new(long unsigned int)'
      ../../util/RegExArray.c++:27:
        too many arguments for function `void * operator new(long unsigned int)'
    *** Exit 1
    Stop.
    
    
    I'm running NeXTSTEP 3.2 on motorola hardware, if that helps (which it  
    probably won't).
    
    I strongly suspect I'm missing something simple somewhere deep in my  
    configuration or gcc installation, but not having a clue how c++ works, I'm at  
    a loss as to where to start.  I've been working at this since Saturday, and  
    have given up hope of solving it myself.  Any suggestions???
    
    
    Thanks!
    
    david.