Re: plperl failure on OS X 10.5(.1)

B. Maust wrote:

> there were a few warnings building plperl:
>
> gcc -no-cpp-precomp -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline 
> -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wendif-labels -fno-strict-aliasing  -I. 
> -I../../../src/include  
> -I/System/Library/Perl/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level/CORE  -c -o 
> plperl.c: In function '_PG_initg:
> plperl.c:191: warning: passing argument 4 of 'DefineCustomBoolVariableg 
> from incompatible pointer type
> plperl.c: In function 'compile_plperl_functiong:
> plperl.c:1624: warning: passing argument 4 of 'SysCacheGetAttrg from 
> incompatible pointer type
> plperl.c:1652: warning: passing argument 4 of 'hash_searchg from 
> incompatible pointer type
> plperl.c: In function 'plperl_hash_from_tupleg: plperl.c:1685: warning: 
> passing argument 4 of 'nocachegetattrg from incompatible pointer type
> plperl.c:1685: warning: passing argument 4 of 'nocachegetattrg from 
> incompatible pointer type
> plperl.c:1685: warning: passing argument 4 of 'heap_getsysattrg from 
> incompatible pointer type
> plperl.c:1696: warning: passing argument 3 of 'getTypeOutputInfog from 
> incompatible pointer type
> plperl.c: In function 'plperl_return_nextg:
> plperl.c:1926: warning: passing argument 3 of 'heap_form_tupleg from 
> incompatible pointer type
> plperl.c: In function 'plperl_spi_prepareg:
> plperl.c:2229: warning: passing argument 4 of 'hash_searchg from 
> incompatible pointer type
>
> nothing fatal... and a more worrisome warning when linking libperl:

Nothing fatal?  Huh, you have a curious idea about warnings.  This makes
me think you have the wrong headers or something -- the argument
mentioned in all these cases is bool, so maybe there is an ABI
incompatibility somewhere.

Perhaps a Perl header is redefining "bool" on your platform?

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