BUG: XaoS 3.1.2 doesn't compile on MBP

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In short:

tigger:~> sudo port install xaos 
Password:
--->  Fetching xaos
--->  Attempting to fetch XaoS-3.1.2.tar.gz from http://downloads.sourceforge.net/xaos
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for xaos
--->  Extracting xaos
--->  Configuring xaos
--->  Building xaos with target all
Error: Target org.macports.build returned: shell command " cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_graphics_xaos/work/XaoS-3.1.2" && make all " returned error 2
Command output:                  from /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_graphics_xaos/work/XaoS-3.1.2/src/include/filter.h:319,
                 from autopilot.c:39:
/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_graphics_xaos/work/XaoS-3.1.2/src/include/formulas.h:39: error: array type has incomplete element type
make[2]: *** [autopilot.o] Error 1
gcc -I/opt/local/include -O2  -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_graphics_xaos/work/XaoS-3.1.2/src/include   -c -o drivers.o drivers.c
gcc -I/opt/local/include -O2  -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_graphics_xaos/work/XaoS-3.1.2/src/include   -c -o ui.o ui.c
In file included from /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_graphics_xaos/work/XaoS-3.1.2/src/include/fractal.h:32,
                 from /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_graphics_xaos/work/XaoS-3.1.2/src/include/filter.h:319,
                 from ui.c:55:
/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_graphics_xaos/work/XaoS-3.1.2/src/include/formulas.h:39: error: array type has incomplete element type
make[2]: *** [ui.o] Error 1
gcc -I/opt/local/include -O2  -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_graphics_xaos/work/XaoS-3.1.2/src/include   -c -o png.o png.c
In file included from /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_graphics_xaos/work/XaoS-3.1.2/src/include/fractal.h:32,
                 from /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_graphics_xaos/work/XaoS-3.1.2/src/include/filter.h:319,
                 from png.c:18:
/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_graphics_xaos/work/XaoS-3.1.2/src/include/formulas.h:39: error: array type has incomplete element type
make[2]: *** [png.o] Error 1
gcc -I/opt/local/include -O2  -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_graphics_xaos/work/XaoS-3.1.2/src/include   -c -o xlib.o xlib.c
gcc -I/opt/local/include -O2  -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_graphics_xaos/work/XaoS-3.1.2/src/include   -c -o ui_x11.o ui_x11.c
rm -f /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_graphics_xaos/work/XaoS-3.1.2/src/lib/libuix11.a
ar rc /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_graphics_xaos/work/XaoS-3.1.2/src/lib/libuix11.a xlib.o ui_x11.o 
ranlib /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_graphics_xaos/work/XaoS-3.1.2/src/lib/libuix11.a 
gcc -I/opt/local/include -O2  -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_graphics_xaos/work/XaoS-3.1.2/src/include -L/opt/local/lib -L/opt/local/lib -o /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_graphics_xaos/work/XaoS-3.1.2/bin/xaos lib/libui.a lib/libui-hlp.a lib/libengine.a lib/libutil.a lib/libfilter.a lib/libuix11.a  -lpng -lz -lm  -lXext   -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 
i686-apple-darwin8-gcc-4.0.1: lib/libui.a: No such file or directory
i686-apple-darwin8-gcc-4.0.1: lib/libui-hlp.a: No such file or directory
i686-apple-darwin8-gcc-4.0.1: lib/libengine.a: No such file or directory
i686-apple-darwin8-gcc-4.0.1: lib/libutil.a: No such file or directory
i686-apple-darwin8-gcc-4.0.1: lib/libfilter.a: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_graphics_xaos/work/XaoS-3.1.2/bin/xaos] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2

Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
tigger:~> which gcc
/usr/bin/gcc
tigger:~> uname -a
Darwin tigger.local 8.10.1 Darwin Kernel Version 8.10.1: Wed May 23 16:33:00 PDT 2007; root:xnu-792.22.5~1/RELEASE_I386 i386 i386
tigger:~> gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
Target: i686-apple-darwin8
Configured with: /private/var/tmp/gcc/gcc-5367.obj~1/src/configure --disable-checking -enable-werror --prefix=/usr --mandir=/share/man --enable-languages=c,objc,c++,obj-c++ --program-transform-name=/^[cg][^.-]*$/s/$/-4.0/ --with-gxx-include-dir=/include/c++/4.0.0 --with-slibdir=/usr/lib --build=powerpc-apple-darwin8 --with-arch=nocona --with-tune=generic --program-prefix= --host=i686-apple-darwin8 --target=i686-apple-darwin8
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5367)

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

I agree, it doesn't work for me either on my MacBook Pro.

Rather than try to get 3.1.2 working, I tried to update the portfile to the current version, 3.2.3. That didn't work either. I have opened a ticket with the authors of xaos:

​http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1780905&group_id=5771&atid=105771

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

my 3.2.3 diff so far

[albatros@…]

Hi, I fixed the very same problem by (manually) installing aalib first; seems that the xaos port is missing a dependency...

[albatros@…]

Erm, sorry, installing aalib did _not_ suffice to fix this (and please don't ask me why it seemed to me that way an hour back...).

[albatros@…]

OK, this time I really did get xaos to compile, and it even seems to work... This required two changes to the source code:

1) Moved the contents of src/include/formulas.h to src/include/fractal.h (in an intelligent way, the #defines to the beginning, the extern declarations to the end, plus change one or to #includes to reference fractal.h instead of formulas.h). This got rid of the errors about a struct declared for an unknown type in formulas.h.

2) Changed a register from bx to cx in an assembler inline in src/engine/i386.c because the assembler complained about "PIC register bx clobbered" (which seems strange because I didn't see any PIC on the command line of the compiler, but I didn't bother to investigate further).

[blb@…]

xaos updated to version 3.4 in r41301, which builds find on my MBP.

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