Re: [Gnucap-devel] Build failure with version 2007-08-20

[David Fang]

> I decided to play around with the latest Gnucap snapshot,
> gnucap-2007-08-20.  I did the usual "configure && make" incantation.
> However, the build fails with this message:
>
> if g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../src  -DNDEBUG  -g -O2 -MT
> mg_out_dev.o -MD -MP -MF ".deps/mg_out_dev.Tpo" -c -o mg_out_dev.o
> mg_out_dev.cc; \
> then mv -f ".deps/mg_out_dev.Tpo" ".deps/mg_out_dev.Po"; else rm -f
> ".deps/mg_out_dev.Tpo"; exit 1; fi
> mg_out_dev.cc: In function `std::string fix_expression(const
> std::string&)':
> mg_out_dev.cc:336: error: type specifier omitted for parameter `in'

Hi,

I can reproduce this with all the g++-3.3 compilers I've tried, it seems 
to be an old parser bug that interprets

        CS x(CS_STRING(), in);

as a function declaration.
A workaround is:

        static const CS_STRING _CSS = CS_STRING();
        CS x(_CSS, in);

Looks like g++-3.3 has more compiling issues throughout the source.  Let 
us/me know if you need help patching them up.

David Fang
Computer Systems Laboratory
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Cornell University
http://www.csl.cornell.edu/~fang/
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