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Arthur Barrett wrote:
> Andreas,
>
>> As far as I know, gcc-4.4 is more strict, e.g. it requires
>> the include
>> file to be #included where it is needed and it does not check
>> if it was
>> included somewhere in the other included files.
>> A lot of changes that I had to make for Debian was because of this
>> behavior, which gcc-4.3 started and gcc-4.4 seems to go even further.
>
> This behaviour appears abnormal (we compile the same code with ms c++ on
> windows and also aCC on HPUX after all). Is it possible to change this
> behavious with a parameter passed to gcc? If so I'd prefer it handled
> that way since we rely on included files from headers within headers all
> over the code.
I will have another look at this. I'm not quite sure any more if it's a
gcc-4.x problem...
>
>> That solved the problem...put the three lines at the end of
>> cvsapi.h and it
>> now builds and installs. Thanks!
>
> But I suppose this brings up the question again of why gcc 4.4 fails to
> compile the code in the first place.
>
> There is no 'harm' in 'also' adding the lines suggested (however adding
> to cvsapi.h is preferable to adding to each trigger).
I haven't patched anything yet. As soon as I know what the reason
is/was, I'll drop a message in the newsgroup.
Best regards
Andreas
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Andreas Tscharner <andy at vis.ethz.ch>
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