[OoklaTheMok]

I know very little about building but I need wget-1.7 for its cookie support; OS X comes with wget-1.5.3 and wget-1.7 is the first to support cookie handling.

So anyway I got 1.7 from ftp.gnu.org/gnu/wget , ran ./configure ... everything seemed ok ... then ran make, and it popped up errors on html-parse.c:

"/usr/local/share/locale\" -g -O2 -c html-parse.c
html-parse.c: In function `advance_declaration':
html-parse.c:449: character constant too long
html-parse.c:449: parse error before character constant
html-parse.c:449: stray '\' in program
html-parse.c:454: character constant too long
html-parse.c:461: character constant too long
html-parse.c:472: character constant too long
html-parse.c:481: character constant too long
html-parse.c:481: character constant too long
html-parse.c:481: stray '\' in program
html-parse.c:773: Unterminated string constant
make[1]: *** [html-parse.o] Error 1

Now...I went to the lines specified, and I couldn't see what the problem was. The lines with supposed stray "\"s don't have any "\" on them at all.

Could someone experienced at compiling CLI apps like this take a shot at it? Help me out? Or maybe compile it yourself and post an installer?

Thanks...

[lindberg]

A few lines above that, where it says assert(ch == '\'' || ch == '"'), change the '"' to '\"' (i.e. add the backslash to escape it).

I am a bit confused as to why this is necessary, but it probably has to do with how the assert() macro is defined -- it is likely trying to use the contents of the expression as a constant string (putting it inside of " ... " characters, so the escape becomes necessary). Just a guess though.

[OoklaTheMok]

thanks! That did the trick. I should have thought of that...earlier in the program he uses the '\"' syntax.

Did it take very long to figure out?