Re: [help-GIFT] Compile failure with gcc-4.1.2

[Wolfgang Müller]

> > So, 4.1.1 instead of 4.1.2 seems to work. Does this help you?
>
> Unfortunately, no. We (Gentoo) need to support 4.1.2, too, as this is the
> latest Gentoo-supported version. 

Hi,

> Furthermore, all newer gcc (>= 4.1.2) 
> versions will barf about this issue, too.

My hope was that this was rather a statement on 4.1.2 than on the following 
ones.

> From what I found in the list archives, this was already a problem on Mac
> OS X and reported in 2003.


Ow.

> IMHO, the best course of action would be to fix the underlying issue so
> that gift will be compilable on recent systems.

IMHO, too.

> Of course, I'll keep on trying to fix this myself (and submit a patch) but
> I don't have much hope. :)

I will try to work on this from time to time, but probably not very quickly.

Best,
Wolfgang
-- 
Dr. Wolfgang Müller
LS Medieninformatik
Universität Bamberg
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