Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> gcc 4.5 complains when compiling some C++ code that includes gdbm.h, with
> a spurious warning:
>
> #include <gdbm.h>
>
> class xx {
>
> public:
> GDBM_FILE dbf;
>
> };
>
> [mrsam@octopus tmp]$ cat foo.c
> #include "foo.h"
> [mrsam@octopus tmp]$ g++ -c foo.c
> In file included from foo.c:1:0:
> foo.h:3:10: warning: âxxâ has a field âxx::dbfâ whose type uses the
> anonymous namespace
>
> The fix to gdbm.h, to get rid of this warning, is trivial, and has zero
> impact.
>
> I wrote to gdbm's listed maintainers two months ago, with no response.
> Given that gdbm hasn't been updated in nearly a decade, I have to believe
> that nobody really cares about this. Except developers who take a small
> amount of pride that their code gets happily consumed by gcc, even with
> -Werror. I see no way to work around this myself, it needs to be fixed in
> gdbm.h.
>
> If anyone here knows gdbm's maintainers, a minor release that tweaks the
> header file, so that it can be pushed into Fedora, would be appreciated.
Please file a bug (and mention the # here), preferably with a patch, and I'm
sure if the maintainers dont get to it, a provenpackager can and will (I
offer to if it's not acted upon promptly).
-- Rex
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