Okay, so it's definitely a bug in the latest toolchain headers shipped 
by Apple.  I filed a bug with them.  If I insert this bit into a couple 
of darwin kernel headers, Subversion compiles fine with the gcc 
-std=c89 flag:
/* Temporary workaround for broken OSX system headers, shipped in
    XCode 1.5.  They're declaring stuff 'static inline', and this is
    incompatible with the '-std=c89' flag we pass to gcc.
    See Apple bug #3805571. */
#if defined(__APPLE__) && !defined(inline)
#define inline __inline__
#endif
So, sure, I could go and remove my toolchain and install an older one.  
But that's not going to prepare us for the floods of bug reports that 
come in once OSX developers start upgrading their own toolchains.  I'm 
just the first person to try to compile Subversion with the latest 
stuff, others will follow soon.  I think it's best to get a workaround 
committed.
So I tried to put this workaround into various svn header files, but 
it's no use.  The bug is triggered by anything that #includes 
<apr_portable.h>.  And svn C files *always* include APR headers before 
svn headers, for obvious reasons.  So that means either:
   * attaching this workaround to a handful of svn C files, or
   * putting the patch in apr_portable.h, in the apr 0.9.x branch
Both of these options kinda stink.  If we do the latter, we commit the 
change to apr 0.9.x, then wait for apache 2.0.52?  And post a patch in 
the meantime?  This is what we did with the bdb 4.2-detection patch for 
apr-util way back when, and it was annoying.
Anyone have any thoughts?  Better ideas?
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Received on Fri Sep 17 19:30:18 2004