Ville Skyttä wrote:
> On Friday 27 February 2009, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> > I'm trying to build VDR 1.6.0-2 for the upcoming Fedora 11 release which
> > has gcc 4.4. There are a bunch of compilation errors as gcc has again
> > become less forgiving for C++ than it used to be.
> >
> > One very common source of problems is explained here:
> > http://markmail.org/message/e5y6atneqztuvpw6#query:
> > +page:1+mid:hdkehz7bgl5b6vgc+state:results
> >
> > There are quite a few of these problems in VDR 1.6.0-2 ("error: invalid
> > conversion from 'const char*' to 'char*'"). I started patching but quickly
> > realized that this is a job for someone who actually knows what he's doing.
> [...]
>
> ...but until there's a real fix available, the attached ugly patch at least
> makes the build succeed with gcc 4.4.
So gcc 4.4 finally hit openSUSE as well. I use the attached patch to
make vdr compile. Seems to work fine too. The code that requires
those const casts is really ugly though.
cu
Ludwig
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Index: vdr-1.6.0/recording.c
===================================================================
--- vdr-1.6.0.orig/recording.c
+++ vdr-1.6.0/recording.c
@@ -509,8 +509,8 @@ cRecording::cRecording(cTimer *Timer, co
Utf8Strn0Cpy(SubtitleBuffer, Subtitle, MAX_SUBTITLE_LENGTH);
Subtitle = SubtitleBuffer;
}
- char *macroTITLE = strstr(Timer->File(), TIMERMACRO_TITLE);
- char *macroEPISODE = strstr(Timer->File(), TIMERMACRO_EPISODE);
+ const char *macroTITLE = strstr(Timer->File(), TIMERMACRO_TITLE);
+ const char *macroEPISODE = strstr(Timer->File(), TIMERMACRO_EPISODE);
if (macroTITLE || macroEPISODE) {
name = strdup(Timer->File());
name = strreplace(name, TIMERMACRO_TITLE, Title);
@@ -551,7 +551,7 @@ cRecording::cRecording(const char *FileN
sortBuffer = NULL;
fileName = strdup(FileName);
FileName += strlen(VideoDirectory) + 1;
- char *p = strrchr(FileName, '/');
+ const char *p = strrchr(FileName, '/');
name = NULL;
info = new cRecordingInfo;
@@ -1022,7 +1022,8 @@ void cRecordings::DelByName(const char *
if (recording) {
cThreadLock DeletedRecordingsLock(&DeletedRecordings);
Del(recording, false);
- char *ext = strrchr(recording->FileName(), '.');
+ // wtf?
+ char *ext = strrchr(const_cast<char*>(recording->FileName()), '.');
if (ext) {
strncpy(ext, DELEXT, strlen(ext));
recording->fileSizeMB = DirSizeMB(recording->FileName());
Index: vdr-1.6.0/svdrp.c
===================================================================
--- vdr-1.6.0.orig/svdrp.c
+++ vdr-1.6.0/svdrp.c
@@ -736,7 +736,7 @@ void cSVDRP::CmdGRAB(const char *Option)
char *strtok_next;
FileName = strtok_r(p, delim, &strtok_next);
// image type:
- char *Extension = strrchr(FileName, '.');
+ const char *Extension = strrchr(FileName, '.');
if (Extension) {
if (strcasecmp(Extension, ".jpg") == 0 || strcasecmp(Extension, ".jpeg") == 0)
Jpeg = true;
@@ -796,12 +796,12 @@ void cSVDRP::CmdGRAB(const char *Option)
if (FileName) {
if (grabImageDir) {
cString s;
- char *slash = strrchr(FileName, '/');
+ char *slash = strrchr(const_cast<char*>(FileName), '/');
if (!slash) {
s = AddDirectory(grabImageDir, FileName);
FileName = s;
}
- slash = strrchr(FileName, '/'); // there definitely is one
+ slash = strrchr(const_cast<char*>(FileName), '/'); // there definitely is one
*slash = 0;
char *r = realpath(FileName, RealFileName);
*slash = '/';
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