Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 20:35:05 -0500
Subject: [gopher] Can't build Gopher on Mac OS X
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From: Robert Hahn <rhahn@golden.net>
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Hi, guys

I saw a mention of Gopher's 10th birthday on Slashdot, and wanted to 
download it and try it for myself.  Thus far, it doesn't work, but I'm 
not willing to give up just yet.

However, I'm just learning how to program in C, and I have about 'zip' 
experience with modifying configure scripts and makefiles to get it to 
compile successfully.  I hope there will be someone here to help me.

Basically, when I type make, a whole whack (yes that's a technical term) 
of "warning: implicit declaration of function"'s come up for function 
calls like malloc() and free().  And, when I check the output of 
./configure, indeed it can't find a couple of .h files that are 
definitely present (like malloc.h)

So, anyway, the make process dies trying to compile GSgopherobj.c during 
the preprocessing stage.  Which obviously is a different problem, but 
even if it didn't die there, I'm sure my program would have been 
non-functional due to the problems described in the earlier paragraph.

So:  I've looked through the archives, and it looks to me that you're 
generally helpful, provided that the newbies give you enough 
information.  What do you need from me to help you figure out what's 
going on?  This is the first unixy package I've tried to compile that 
Didn't Work (out of about I think 3 in total, personal projects 
notwithstanding), and I'm willing to roll up my sleeves to see what's 
involved in getting it to work.  Odds are, these kinds of issues will 
crop up in other software packages too.

Thanks in advance!
-rh