| Summary: | D-Bus doesn't link on Mac OS X | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Product: | dbus | Reporter: | Harald Fernengel <harry> |
| Component: | core | Assignee: | Havoc Pennington <hp> |
| Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | John (J5) Palmieri <johnp> |
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | Other | ||
| OS: | Mac OS X (All) | ||
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| i915 platform: | i915 features: | ||
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for some reason, "char **environ" cannot be extern'ed when building a library on Mac OS X. The patch below uses the suggested workaround according to the man page (using _NSGetEnviron()). --- dbus-sysdeps.c 2008-01-14 20:51:51.000000000 +0100 +++ dbus-sysdeps.c.new 2008-02-22 22:12:34.000000000 +0100 @@ -47,6 +47,11 @@ #include <errno.h> #endif +#ifdef __APPLE__ +/* needed for _NSGetEnviron */ +#include <crt_externs.h> +#endif + _DBUS_DEFINE_GLOBAL_LOCK (win_fds); _DBUS_DEFINE_GLOBAL_LOCK (sid_atom_cache); _DBUS_DEFINE_GLOBAL_LOCK (system_users); @@ -191,7 +196,12 @@ if (clearenv () != 0) rc = FALSE; #else +#ifdef __APPLE__ +/* On Mac OS X, environ can't be accessed directly - use _NSGetEnviron() instead */ + char **environ = *_NSGetEnviron(); +#else extern char **environ; +#endif if (environ != NULL) environ[0] = NULL;