Re: [Update REQ 6077]: Geomview under FreeBSD

[matthieu at tigger.cs.colorado.edu]

>From: Stuart Levy <slevy>
>Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 15:48:04 -0600
>Message-Id: <199701202148.PAA22571 at dirichlet.geom.umn.edu>
>To: software@geom.umn.edu
>Subject: Re: [Update REQ 6077]: Geomview under FreeBSD
>
>Hmm, if you do have geomview 1.6.1, not sure what's up.  The
>sources include several ``#ifdef __FreeBSD__''s, including
>some which, if effective, should mean the errors you're seeing
>shouldn't happen.  (For example, _ptr would be #define'd to _p at
>line 167 of src/lib/oogl/util/futil.c, so the
>"futil.c: 739: structure has no member named _ptr" should not appear.)

>I had the impression that cc under Free BSD would always identify the system
>by defining __FreeBSD__; can you tell whether it does?

Ok, I'm compiling with gcc version 2.7.2. I wrote a sample program to
test the built in defines and it does not define __FreeBSD__. I'm not
sure if that holds for this version of gcc or just this particular
installation.

I've added my own define to mk.FreeBSD but this didn't get too far
because I'm trying to compile with lesstif instead of Motif. I'm
giving up on lesstif and going back to trying to get the admins to
compile Motif on the BSD machines. 

Thanks for your help!

 -Ray