Rex Dieter writes:
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).
Happy to do that, the patch is a no-brainer. Bug 668178.My only concern is that something like this might lead to fragmentation. This may result in downstream packages, by default using -Werror if its configure detects gcc as the compiler. There's nothing wrong with configure setting gcc-specific flags, if the compiler is gcc, of course, but now you're going to have stuff that builds on Fedora with its default settings, but not on other distros.
But, I suppose, right now you might have stuff that builds by default on other distros, with older gcc, but for Fedora -Werror has to be dropped.
So, it's a wash, I suppose. This should really be fixed in gdbm itself.
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