[ale] Remedial C++/gcc/build question

[Jim Popovitch]

On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 9:25 AM, John Mills <johnmills at speakeasy.net> wrote:
> Jim -
>
>  Thanks for the lead. I may have tracked this back to
>  '/opt/gnome/include/glib-2.0/glib/gmacros.h':
>
>  #if     __GNUC__ >= 4
>  #define G_GNUC_SENTINEL(x) __attribute__((__sentinel__(x)))
>  #else
>  #define G_GNUC_SENTINEL(x)
>  #endif
>
>  I'm building with gcc-3.3.5, so the macro "G_GNUC_SENTINEL(x)" has an
>  empty definition as suggested by the compilation error message:
>
>  gcc -fno-strict-aliasing -g -O2 -Wall -I../include -I/usr/X11R6/include
>  -pthread -DXTHREADS -D_REENTRANT -DXUSE_MTSAFE_API
>  -I/usr/local/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/local/lib/glib-2.0/include
>  -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/include/freetype2
>  -I/usr/include/freetype2/config -I/opt/gnome/include/gtk-2.0
>  -I/opt/gnome/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/opt/gnome/include/atk-1.0
>  -DGTK_ENABLE_BROKEN -I/usr/X11R6/include -c xgnokii.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o
>  .libs/xgnokii.o
>  In file included from
>  /opt/gnome/include/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf.h:33,
>                   from /opt/gnome/include/gtk-2.0/gdk/gdkcursor.h:5,
>                   from /opt/gnome/include/gtk-2.0/gdk/gdk.h:31,
>                   from /opt/gnome/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtk.h:31,
>                   from xgnokii.c:43:
>  /opt/gnome/include/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf-core.h:167: error: syntax
>
> error before "G_GNUC_SENTINEL"
>  /opt/gnome/include/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf-core.h:167: warning: type
>  defaults to `int' in declaration of `G_GNUC_SENTINEL'
>
>
>  Any suggested work-arounds?

John,

Probably will need to see the code lines before "#if     __GNUC__ >=
4".   Also, you might want to see if either of these two URLs offer
some insight.  My SUSE knowledge is nil.

http://www.mail-archive.com/emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org/msg02347.html
http://albatross.dnsdojo.net/apache2-default/wiki/index.php/Ghemical

-Jim P.