Re: [GDL] build problems

[Gustavo Giráldez <gustavo giraldez gmx net>]

Hi!

Sorry for the long absence, I was enjoying my last vacation days :-) 
Back at home now.

On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 06:18, Jeroen Zwartepoorte wrote:
> Hi John,
> 
> On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 06:51, John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
> > I ran into a couple of build problems with GDL.  
> 
> Gustavo changed some stuff recently to the build process, but it builds
> fine on my machines (fedora + ydl).

Yeah, for maintainer cvs builds both full deprecated flags and error
compiler warnings are enabled.  For released tarballs they are disabled
though.

> > * -fno-strict-aliasing needs to be set as a build flag or it will warn
> > on (gpointer *) &widget.  Since -Werror is set this causes GDL not to
> > build.
> 
> Should we really set -Werror as a default in the build? I know i removed
> it from glimmer at one point because different platforms generated
> different warnings and broke the build.

In my experience, setting -Werror has helped me a lot in finding both
typos and very weird bugs.  I prefer not to remove them, but fix the
warnings instead.

I'm also using Fedora, but I got that compiler warning.  I already
committed a fix for it.  FWIW, my GCC version is 3.3.2.

> > * libssl development files are needed for the build (why do we use SSL?)
> > but does not error out when running ./configure.
> 
> I have no idea why we would need libssl. Strange.

This is weird.  The only library I can think of which might need libssl
is gnome-vfs.  Maybe it's a bug in its pkg-config file?  I have an
up-to-date jhbuild HEAD build and gdl compiles fine now.

Regards,
Gustavo