[gnutls-devel] gnutls 3.1.10 compile fails on OS X 10.5 Leopard because of invalid start-of-comment characters in macosx/appro-aes-x86-macosx.s

[Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos]

On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 5:13 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
> Building gnutls 3.1.10 fails on OS X 10.5.8 Leopard i386 with Xcode 3.1.4:
> macosx/appro-aes-x86-macosx.s:1:3: error: invalid preprocessing directive #Copyright
> "#" appears not to be a valid start-of-comment character for this assembler (which is "Apple Inc version cctools-698.1~1, GNU assembler version 1.38"). Removing the lines that start with "#" fixes the problem. I don't know what the correct start-of-comment character should be; the documentation I found says it should be "#" on i386 and ";" on ppc.

Hello,
 I am unfamiliar with the platform and I don't know how this can be
fixed. Is that specific to leopard or assemblers in  all macosx
systems fail to compile it? Is there a comment symbol that can be used
reliably there?

regards,
Nikos