[matplotlib-devel] Solaris and GCC 4.3.x: error TTStreamWriter has no putc

When attempting to build matplotlib 0.98.5.2 on Solaris 10 using GCC 
4.3.3, I get an error:

ttconv/pprdrv_tt2.cpp: In member function ‘void 
GlyphToType3::stack(TTStreamWriter&, int)’:
ttconv/pprdrv_tt2.cpp:107: error: ‘class TTStreamWriter’ has no member 
named ‘putc’

So I tried invoking GCC with the -E flag to get the output of the 
preprocessor and I see that line 107 of pprdrv_tt2.cpp gets rewritten to:
stream.putc(('{'), (&__iob[1]));
so it seems that something in GCC 4.3.3 on Solaris is defining a putchar 
macro that is doing this, but not correspondingly being applied to the 
pprdrv.h.

Searching the list archives, I see that back in July & August, 2008 
there was a brief thread between Peter Norton and Mike Droettboom about 
this and a proposal was made to rename TTStreamWriter::putchar to 
TTStreamWriter:put_char. I just looked at the trunk and it looks like 
this has never been done. Was there some other work-around that didn't 
make it into the thread that obviated the need for the mentioned change?

I can confirm that the renaming of putchar to put_char does solve the 
problem. I've attached a patch file, though it is against 0.98.5.2.


-- Dave