Re: GUB fail with smob templates

[David Kastrup]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

> Phil Holmes <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> GUB failed today with the following errors:
>>
>> /home/gub/gub/target/darwin-ppc/src/lilypond-git.sv.gnu.org--lilypond.git-
>> release-unstable/lily/include/unpure-pure-container.hh: In static member 
>> function 'static scm_unused_struct* Unpure_pure_container::make_smob
>> (scm_unused_struct*, scm_unused_struct*)':
>> /home/gub/gub/target/darwin-ppc/src/lilypond-git.sv.gnu.org--lilypond.git-
>> release-unstable/lily/include/unpure-pure-container.hh:39: 
>> error: 'template<class Super> class Smob2' used without template parameters
>> /home/gub/gub/target/darwin-ppc/src/lilypond-git.sv.gnu.org--lilypond.git-
>> release-unstable/lily/include/unpure-pure-container.hh:40: 
>> error: 'template<class Super> class Smob2' used without template parameters
>>
>> I assume this is http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=4082 
>
> The actually flagged code is in issue 4086 instead, though 4086 heavily
> depends on 4082.
>
>> but it's way over my head to know what the problem is.
>
> Possibly an older gcc version.  Are these the only errors?  In a
> parallel build, one would expect to run across several errors in
> different files before compilation bombs out.  Would be good to know
> and/or have some further complaints to look at.
>
> I'll try brooding over the error messages and see whether they suggest
> some syntax that might be more palatable to older gcc versions.

Pushed a matching fix.  It does not appear that this particular problem
is coded elsewhere.  I think that the compiler complaint might be
correct even though my newer GCC variant does not bother mentioning it.

-- 
David Kastrup