Building libgc fails on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: ... and require _XOPEN_SOURCE to be defined

Question

The following steps:

$ wget http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/gc_source/gc-7.0.tar.gz
$ tar xvfz gc-7.0.tar.gz
$ cd gc-7.0
$ ./configure
$ make

fail with this error:

In file included from mach_dep.c:163:
/usr/include/ucontext.h:42:2: error: #error ucontext routines are deprecated, 
and require _XOPEN_SOURCE to be defined

Disclaimer: This is just a note-to-self kind of question. – miku Aug 03 '11 at 16:28 — miku, Aug 03 '11 at 16:28
https://github.com/ivmai/bdwgc/ – Reb.Cabin May 23 '14 at 13:23 — Reb.Cabin, May 23 '14 at 13:23

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 03 '11 at 16:27

ucontext.h is included here:

$ fstr "ucontext.h" # find string ...
./mach_dep.c:163
./os_dep.c:2752

Replace ucontext.h in mach_dep.c with sys/ucontext.h.

Details: http://duriansoftware.com/joe/PSA:-avoiding-the-%22ucontext-routines-are-deprecated%22-error-on-Mac-OS-X-Snow-Leopard.html

Building libgc fails on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: ... and require _XOPEN_SOURCE to be defined

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