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Build error on macOS (PATH_MAX undeclared) #12108

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I am building OpenMPI 5.0.0 on macOS with a MacPorts-installed GCC 13.2.

My configure options are

$ ./configure --prefix=$HOME/openmpi-5.0.0 --with-libevent=internal CC=gcc CXX=g++ FC=gfortran

This fails with the error message

In file included from /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX14.sdk/usr/include/stdio.h:409,
                 from ./include/mpl_base.h:14,
                 from ./include/mpl.h:9,
                 from src/str/mpl_str.c:6:
src/str/mpl_str.c: In function 'MPL_create_pathname':
src/str/mpl_str.c:413:37: error: 'PATH_MAX' undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean 'AF_MAX'?
  413 |         MPL_snprintf(dest_filename, PATH_MAX, "%s/%s.%u.%u%c", dirname, prefix,
      |                                     ^~~~~~~~

This refers to the file 3rd-party/romio341/mpl/src/str/mpl_str.c (I wish that was reported directly in the error message). Adding the line #include <sys/syslimits.h> to the beginning of this file resolves the error.

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