Rhialto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted
[EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sat, 22 Mar 2008
14:25:24 +0100:
> On Sat 22 Mar 2008 at 05:01:17 +0000, Duncan wrote:
>> Among other things, it needs #include <cstring> now, based on the
>> errors
>
> <cstring> is the C++ name for the C header file <string.h>. It may
> possibly do something extra like wrap an extern "C" {} around it.
> Something like
>
> <cstring>:
> extern "C" {
> #include <string.h>
> }
>
> Maybe if you create files like that, it helps? Strange though that you
> would not be having those files, they have been included with g++ for a
> while, I think.
That's the thing, gcc/g++ 4.3, as is the established gcc pattern, gets a
bit stricter toward the standards. string.h (among others) as such has
apparently been deprecated for awhile, spitting warnings if they were
turned on, in favor of referencing it elsewise (basically, without
the .h). Additionally, default includes were streamlined somewhat, with
the normal includes not now packing the extra baggage of some of the
additional includes with them, so they must be specified separately if
they are in fact needed. Where they aren't needed, it'll reduce compile
time (and perhaps final binary space used, the docs weren't quite as
clear on that and I don't know enough about it to say for sure). The
tradeoff is that they must be specified individually where needed now,
and because that's a change from before, the porting is a bit of a pain.
See the gcc 4.3 series porting doc (link below) for more information; you
can probably make rather more of it than I did, but I /think/ I got and
conveyed the gist of things in context. I just don't have the practical
knowledge necessary to do much with it, except by (slightly informed)
trial and error. (I run amarok-1.4.9999, the Gentoo notation for the 1.4
branch live build, and devised and implemented a one-line patch to get it
working with gcc-4.3 since the initial post, but pan appears to be rather
more complicated than that!)
http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.3/porting_to.html
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
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