<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Hi Gian Luca,<div><br></div><div>your fix works fine for V13.3.17 on MacOS 26.6 (M2) using (brew installed) gcc-16 which seems to correspond to MacOSX26.sdk (-std=gnu17 does not cause an issue). X is fired up as expected (I haven’t run any test on actual functionality, yet, though).</div><div><br></div><div>On MacOS, I need some additional changes to ‘Install' due to the non-editable /usr/ directory on macs (line-numbers refer to modified Install), given here for anybody interested (I use brew for any “Linux” packages):</div><div><br></div><div>Approx. line 340 ff:</div><div><p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 255); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">   </span>else</span></p> <p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size: 11px;">    xml_libs_found=<span style="color: #a31515">"yes"</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(0, 128, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size: 11px;">    <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">if</span> [ <span style="color: rgb(163, 21, 21);">"</span>$machine<span style="color: rgb(163, 21, 21);">"</span> = <span style="color: rgb(163, 21, 21);">"arm64"</span> ]; <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">then</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(163, 21, 21); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><span style="color: #000000">        LIBXML2_INCLUDE=</span>"-I/opt/homebrew/opt/libxml2/include/libxml2 -I/opt/homebrew/opt/libxslt/include/libxslt"</span></p> <p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size: 11px;">    <span style="color: #0000ff">else</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(163, 21, 21); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><span style="color: #000000">        LIBXML2_INCLUDE=</span>"-I/usr/include -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/local/include/libxml2 -I/usr/include/libxslt -I/local/include/libxslt"</span></p> <p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size: 11px;">    <span style="color: #0000ff">fi</span></span></p></div><div><span style="font-size: 11px;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 11px;">Approx. line 804 ff:</span></div><div><p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><span style="color: #0000ff">case</span> $platform <span style="color: #0000ff">in</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size: 11px;">  mac)</span></p> <p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(0, 128, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">      localinclude=</span><span style="color: rgb(163, 21, 21);">"-I/opt/homebrew/include"</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size: 11px;">      ;;</span></p> <p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size: 11px;">  *)  localinclude=<span style="color: #a31515">"-I/usr/local/include"</span> ;;</span></p> <p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 255); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size: 11px;">esac</span></p><div><span style="font-size: 11px;"><br></span></div><div><p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(163, 21, 21); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><span style="color: #000000">LOCAL_INCLUDES=</span>"-I../include -I../shocc <span style="color: #000000">${localinclude}</span> -I../cetc/h3kreports"</span></p></div><div><br></div><div>Sadly it seems that between V.17 and V.18 changes in the X code break the X-connection for MacOS. During compile, for V.18 the header file mntext.h and others are missing. I found these in package 'brew install emscripten’ (compiler toolchain to WebAssembly) which makes 'mntext.h’, 'bits/alltypes.h' and 'bits/dirent.h’ available. No idea what this is actually necessary for in ESP-r.</div><div><br></div><div>For what its worth.</div><div><br></div><div>Best</div><div>Achim</div><div><br></div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 8 Aug 2026, at 23:18, Gian Luca Brunetti <gianluca.brunetti@polimi.it> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta charset="UTF-8"><div class="elementToProof" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Hi Achim,</div><div class="elementToProof" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">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-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">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-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">extern gnwkquery_();</div><div class="elementToProof" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">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-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I was able to get past this by compiling the C code using GNU C17 semantics, adding</div><div class="elementToProof" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">-std=gnu17</div><div class="elementToProof" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">to the CFLAGS used by the installer.</div><div class="elementToProof" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The patch I used was:</div><div class="elementToProof" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">sed -i '/GNU).*CFLAGS=/ s|";;| -std=gnu17 -Wno-error=implicit-int -Wno-error=implicit-function-declaration";;|' Install</div><div class="elementToProof" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">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-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">For completeness: I used ChatGPT to formulate the workaround.</div><div class="elementToProof" style="font-style: normal; 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(+39) 3358040808</div><div class="elementToProof" style="direction: ltr; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">email:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:gianluca.brunetti@polimi.it">gianluca.brunetti@polimi.it</a></div></div></div><div id="appendonsend" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;"></div><hr tabindex="-1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; display: inline-block; width: 1181.875px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;"></span><div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:esp-r-bounces@lists.strath.ac.uk">esp-r-bounces@lists.strath.ac.uk</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><<a href="mailto:esp-r-bounces@lists.strath.ac.uk">esp-r-bounces@lists.strath.ac.uk</a>> on behalf of achim.geissler <<a href="mailto:achim.geissler@acatalepsy.ch">achim.geissler@acatalepsy.ch</a>><br><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Monday, August 3, 2026 9:08 AM<br><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:esp-r@lists.strath.ac.uk">esp-r@lists.strath.ac.uk</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><<a href="mailto:esp-r@lists.strath.ac.uk">esp-r@lists.strath.ac.uk</a>><br><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[esp-r] Compiling on MacOS 26.5+</font><div> </div></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; 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><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>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="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><br class="x_Apple-interchange-newline"><a href="mailto:achim.geissler@acatalepsy.ch">achim.geissler@acatalepsy.ch</a></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br><div> <div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">achim.geissler@acatalepsy.ch</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><br></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div> <br></div></body></html>