Change the way external symbols are defined to avoid COMMON symbols, which

don't work on OSX very well.

util/ack/data.c

@@ -6,15 +6,11 @@
 #include "list.h"
 #include "trans.h"
 
-#ifndef NORCSID
+/* Include once without redefining EXTERN, to declare all the symbols as extern. */
-static char rcs_id[] = "$Id$" ;
-#endif
-
-#undef EXTERN
-#define EXTERN
-
 #include "data.h"
 
-#ifndef NORCSID
+/* And again without EXTERN, to define them here. Without the extern versions above
-static char rcs_data[] = RCS_DATA ;
+ * then these symbols will all end up as COMMON, which is poorly supported on OSX. */
-#endif
+#undef EXTERN
+#define EXTERN
+#include "data.h"

util/ack/data.h

@@ -2,9 +2,8 @@
  * (c) copyright 1987 by the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
  * See the copyright notice in the ACK home directory, in the file "Copyright".
  */
-#ifndef NORCSID
+
-#define RCS_DATA "$Id$"
+/* WARNING: don't put guards around this file (there are reasons). See data.c. */
-#endif
 
 EXTERN  char            *stopsuffix;    /* Suffix to stop at */
 EXTERN  char            *machine;       /* The machine id */