<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252"> <style type="text/css" style="display:none;"> P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;} </style> </head> <body dir="ltr"> <div class="elementToProof" style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Hi Achim,</div> <div class="elementToProof" style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> I have just encountered a different issue with 13.3.18 on a current Ubuntu system, so I thought I would mention it here in case it is useful to others.</div> <div class="elementToProof" style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> In my case, the installation stopped while building the X11 part of ESP-r, in esru_x.c. With a recent GCC, some old-style C declarations, for example</div> <div class="elementToProof" style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> extern gnwkquery_();</div> <div class="elementToProof" style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> are interpreted differently, which led to errors such as “too many arguments to function”, together with a conflicting declaration of getenv().</div> <div class="elementToProof" style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> I was able to get past this by compiling the C code using GNU C17 semantics, adding</div> <div class="elementToProof" style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> -std=gnu17</div> <div class="elementToProof" style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> to the CFLAGS used by the installer.</div> <div class="elementToProof" style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> The patch I used was:</div> <div class="elementToProof" style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> sed -i '/GNU).*CFLAGS=/ s|";;| -std=gnu17 -Wno-error=implicit-int -Wno-error=implicit-function-declaration";;|' Install</div> <div class="elementToProof" style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> This is a different issue from the update_notes.txt problem you describe, but the workaround might still be worth sharing.</div> <div class="elementToProof" style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> For completeness: I used ChatGPT to formulate the workaround.</div> <div class="elementToProof" style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Best</div> <div style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Gian Luca</div> <div id="Signature" class="elementToProof"> <div class="elementToProof" style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <br> </div> <div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="elementToProof"> <div style="direction: ltr; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="elementToProof"> <br> </div> <div style="direction: ltr; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="elementToProof"> Gian Luca Brunetti</div> <div style="direction: ltr; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="elementToProof"> Associate Professor</div> <div style="direction: ltr; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="elementToProof"> Arch. 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(+39) 02 2399 5750<br> </div> <div style="direction: ltr; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="elementToProof"> cell. (+39) 3358040808</div> <div style="direction: ltr; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="elementToProof"> email: gianluca.brunetti@polimi.it</div> </div> </div> <div id="appendonsend"></div> <hr style="display:inline-block;width:98%" tabindex="-1"> <div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> esp-r-bounces@lists.strath.ac.uk <esp-r-bounces@lists.strath.ac.uk> on behalf of achim.geissler <achim.geissler@acatalepsy.ch><br> <b>Sent:</b> Monday, August 3, 2026 9:08 AM<br> <b>To:</b> esp-r@lists.strath.ac.uk <esp-r@lists.strath.ac.uk><br> <b>Subject:</b> [esp-r] Compiling on MacOS 26.5+</font> <div> </div> </div> <div style="line-break:after-white-space">Hi all, <div><br> </div> <div>after some time, I wanted to update my ESP-r version on my M2 Mac w/ MacOS 26.5 (soon .6) to the current latest, 13.3.18 from May 2025.</div> <div><br> </div> <div>Compiling was possible after quite a struggle, however, there seems to be a problem with the “update_notes.txt” which is downloaded at startup to check if the most recent version is installed. As far as I could see, an (MacOS) “EOF” or similar is inserted prior to the 13.3.18 changes listing and this leads to an error "<font face="Monaco" size="1">EMENU: EOF detected, error in input command.”</font> which itself possibly makes firing up of X broken.</div> <div><br> </div> <div>Who - currently - is managing the ESP-r code? I would be interested in getting the 13.3.17 archive (my latest successful installation was 13.3.16) to make sure there is no gap in my source tree.</div> <div><br> </div> <div>Also, it would be nice if somebody at ESRU could check the current “update_notes.txt” and make sure no undesired characters inadvertently made their way into it.</div> <div><br> </div> <div>Thanks.</div> <div>Best</div> <div>Achim<br> <div> <div style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Helvetica; font-size:12px; font-style:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-weight:normal; letter-spacing:normal; orphans:auto; text-align:start; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; widows:auto; word-spacing:0px; text-decoration:none"> <br class="x_Apple-interchange-newline"> achim.geissler@acatalepsy.ch</div> <div style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Helvetica; font-size:12px; font-style:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-weight:normal; letter-spacing:normal; orphans:auto; text-align:start; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; widows:auto; word-spacing:0px; text-decoration:none"> <br> </div> <br class="x_Apple-interchange-newline"> </div> <br> </div> </div> </body> </html>