Hi All,
I'm trying to build Slurm on a Mac running OS X Sierra (via Spack)
Slurm seems to use some compiler trickery that's specific to gcc to
define the `strong_alias` macro. If `USE_ALIAS=0` then a simple
replacement is used instead.
On the Mac it ends up using this definition:
```C
# define strong_alias(name, aliasname) \
extern void aliasname(int name)
```
so this call from src/common/hostlist.c:
```C
strong_alias(hostlist_copy, slurm_hostlist_copy);
```
generates something like
```C
extern void slurm_hostlist_copy(int hostlist_copy)
```
But this other macro from rc/common/slurm_xlator.h:
```C
#define hostlist_copy slurm_hostlist_copy
```
and this definition from src/common/hostlist.h:
```C
hostlist_t hostlist_copy(const hostlist_t hl);
```
give `hostlist_copy` a different signature.
I see that other folks have mentioned the same/similar problem on the
mailing list but I haven't seen any reply.
There are enough mentions of darwin in the src tree that it seems like
it should work (or has worked).
Am I chasing something hopeless?
g.
[1]: https://www.mail-archive.com/slurm-dev@schedmd.com/msg05675.html
[2]:
http://slurm-dev.schedmd.narkive.com/Mc95M1a3/error-compiling-slurm-2-3-1-on-mac-os-x-error-conflicting-types-for-slurm-hostlist-create
