Re: [linrad] SVGALIB installation problem , not solved (yet)

[Joe Fitzgerald <jfitzgerald@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

http://lists.debian.org/debian-qa-packages/2003/06/msg00004.html

I was able to duplicate your problem in Fedora Core 1 using gcc 3.3.2-1, 
and I was also able to fix it by deleting the "gratuitous ##" from line 
3917 of vga.c

Two ways to fix ... go to your svgalib-1.4.3/src directory, open vga.c 
with your favorite editor, go to line 3917 and change it manually from

mmt.##x = atoi(ptr);

to

mmt.x = atoi(ptr);


OR

Download the patch file I created for you 
http://members.verizon.net/~km1p/vga.c.patch and put it in your 
svga-1.4.3/src directory
Then from the command line cd to svgalib-1.4.3/src and type:

patch vga.c vga.c.patch

and this will accomplish automatically what I described above.  Now you 
should be able to make install OK.


Appartently, this ## is making a change that is unnecessary, but valid 
under older gcc's, but the stricter checking of the newer gcc's 
complains about it.

-Joe KM1P

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