problem with glib 1.3.7 on darwin

[Max Horn <max quendi de>]

[I am not sure if this is the right list for this, I couldn't find 
one better suited, but please point me to a better place than this if 
there is one! thanks]


Together with Finlay Doobie, I am looking into getting a native 
backend for gtk+ on MacOS X (darwin, aqua) working. TO this end I 
wanted to get latest gtk+ CVS "working" (meaning I added stuff to the 
configure scripts etc etc.). However, that requires glib 1.3.7. Fine, 
so I got that. (That requires again pkgconfig, I got 0.8.0, which has 
its own copy of glib-1.2.8, sigh, but that is another story).

Now I can compile glib 1.3.7 fine, however, running make check gives 
an error in tests/strfunc-test.c, and to me it seems this is a 
problem with that file not darwin, but please correct me. What fails? 
In line 329ff it complains about isalnum, isalpha etc. missing. The 
code look like this:

  #define TEST_IS(name) test_is_function (#name, test_##name, name, 
g_unichar_##name)
  isalnum('a');
  TEST_IS (isalnum);
  TEST_IS (isalpha);
  ...

The reason is simple: darwin's ctype.h #define's those as macros:
#define isalnum(c)      __istype((c), (_A|_D))
...

But the C preprocessor will not expand isalnum ! It would be wrong 
for it in fact. GLIB assumes that those functions are real function, 
but in real, on many many implementations they are macros.


I hope this will be fixed eventually. Please correct me if I am 
mistaken in any of my assertions.


Thanks,

Max
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