The following reply was made to PR pkg/33403; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: OBATA Akio <obata@lins.jp>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/33403: Can't build perl module written by C++
Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 10:34:32 +0900

 On Tue, 02 May 2006 10:28:58, Johnny C. Lam wrote:
 > Could you please try the attached patch?  I believe it is more in the
 > spirit of how the Perl developers are currently trying to handle GCC
 > __attribute__ expressions in the Perl codebase.  Please let me know if
 > this works for you.
 
 Same error occured.
 
 ===> Building for p5-mecab-0.91
 c++ -c  -I/usr/pkg/include  -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/pkg/include -O2 -I/usr/pkg/include -I/usr/include   -I/usr/pkg/include -I/usr/include    -DVERSION=\"0.91\"  -DXS_VERSION=\"0.91\" -DPIC -fPIC "-I/usr/pkg/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-netbsd-thread-multi/CORE"   MeCab_wrap.cxx
 In file included from MeCab_wrap.cxx:708:
 /usr/pkgsrc/wip/p5-mecab/work/.buildlink/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-netbsd-thread-multi/CORE/perl.h:2704: error: parse
    error before `__attribute__'
 /usr/pkgsrc/wip/p5-mecab/work/.buildlink/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-netbsd-thread-multi/CORE/perl.h:2714: error: parse
    error before `__attribute__'
 /usr/pkgsrc/wip/p5-mecab/work/.buildlink/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-netbsd-thread-multi/CORE/perl.h:2714: error: syntax
    error before `)' token
 
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