Re: ddd on Alpine Linux

[Michael Eager]

On 11/11/20 7:38 AM, David Topham wrote:
> I am interested in using ddd as gui front-end to gdb on Alpine Linux.
> I don't see a binary in the Alpine packages site, so I am building it 
> from source code (2009 version 3.3.12 is latest?).
>
> So far, I have gotten configure to work after installing several 
> dependencies related to termcp, Xt, and Xm. These are not installed by 
> default but I could get them using apk add command.
>
> Since I am using JSLinux to run Alpine in the browser, it has taken more 
> than 4 hours so far to run make! I made several source code changes 
> related to the current version using default parameter values in friend 
> function declarations which apparently is no longer allowed. That seems 
> to be working by moving those default values to the definitions (e.g. 
> common_prefix in strclass.C).
>
> I am getting tons of warnings of various kinds. Mostly one related to 
> deprecated implicit copy constructor in "Box" functions/classes.
>
> I an wondering if anyone has used ddd in Alpine, and/or if anyone has 
> updated  source code modernized to latest gcc compiler?

It's been several years since I tried to build DDD.  I was able to build 
it, but there were a number of issues.

Unfortunately, DDD has not been maintained for a long time.  It is based 
on old Modif libraries which are outdated.  It has not been updated to 
conform to compiler changes.    The last release is 3.3.12.

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Michael Eager