Re: many packages __FUNCTION__ problems

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Ali Akcaagac <ali akcaagac stud fh-wilhelmshaven de> writes:

> On Mon, 2002-01-28 at 22:24, Owen Taylor wrote:
> > 
> > I don't think it is appropriate to put this type of dependencies throughout
> > GNOME. If people use G_STRLOC, then they will get FILE:LINE for non-GCC
> > or GCC >= 3.0, once we deal with the problem in GLib; if they use
> > G_GNUC_FUNCTION or G_GNUC_PRETTY_FUNCTION they will get "". 
> 
> right, but currently you check in glib if _GNU_C is defined and assume
> it to support __FUNCTION__ if not you give it "" so its in glib 1 and
> glib 2. i for now use gcc3.0.3 and still compile a lot of gnome 1
> related stuff and i don't like getting a lot of errors reported because
> that stuff changed. sure i understand that it's better to have this
> stuff beeing dealt in glib but since now it isn't.. now what should we
> do ? do you know for another better solution for the short time ?

I plan to put in a workaround for 1.3.13, which is planned to go out tomorrow.

If this is not short enough for you, well, you can modify your local
copy sooner :-)

                                        Owen