[vox-tech] can I make gcc masquerade as non-gcc?

[Matt Roper]

Would adding -U__GNUC__ to gcc's command line help?  -U is the opposite
of -D; it undefines a macro (as if you put an #undef in the code).


Matt

On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 01:34:42PM -0700, Matt Holland wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> I'm trying to compile libdv on my Mac (I know, OS X, a little off-topic 
> :).  I keep running into problems where preprocessing and parsing fails 
> because the code has lots of
> 
> #ifdef __GNUC__
> ...
> #else
> ...
> #endif
> 
> blocks in it.  This wouldn't be a problem, but for the fact that it 
> seems that the version of gcc that I'm using (Apple calls it 
> gcc-937.2... boy are they ahead of their time; it's based on gcc-2.95.2) 
> doesn't seem to like the code that it gets (something about "rolled-up" 
> syntax that's supposed to be supported by gcc).  I suppose I could go 
> through and replace #ifdef __GNUC__ with #ifdef __FUBARC__ or something 
> like that, but there are many instances in multiple files involved, so 
> it would be nice if I could just change something in the top-level 
> Makefile or pass an option to the configure script (tho I don't see any 
> options that seem appropriate) to undefine __GNUC__ globally.
> 
> Thanks,
> Matt
> 
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