Re: gmacros.h patch

[Eric Lemings <eric b lemings lmco com>]

Owen Taylor wrote:

> Can you explain in more detail?
>
> Is this GCC or G++? Why is const being defined as a macro?

In my software package, I have something like the following in my
configure.in file:

    AM_PROG_CPLUSPLUS
    ...
    AM_PATH_GLIB_2_0(1.3.3, ...)
    ...
    AC_C_CONST
    AC_LANG_CPP

I may have had the last two reversed but that shouldn't matter.  With
gcc-2.95.3, the AC_C_CONST macro determiend that const was broken as so
defined it as nothing:

#define const

That caused a compile error when it found the G_GNUC_CONST macro with an
empty 'attribute (( ))'.

Eric.