Re: gnuradio-3.8 build fails with error: cannot convert const string {aka const std::__cxx11::basic_string<char>} to pmt::pmt_t {aka boost::shared_ptr<pmt::pmt_base>}

[Marcus Müller]

oops, wrong email account. Anyway, how **does** one get a recent
Slackware64? The one that you find as official containers contains SWIG
2, GCC 4.something and boost 1.54.

Best,
Marcus

On Thu, 2020-01-02 at 17:16 +0100, Marcus Müller wrote:
> Hi Tom,
> 
> funky distro!
> That API used to be string (of a serialized PMT) and now is PMT
> directly. That happened somewhere around July.
> Thus, this slightly looks like you still have some older header files
> lying around? Or some outdated SWIG output that somehow ends up in
> your
> build?
> Could you try in a clean container? I'm trying here locally, but
> honestly, I've never used slackware before, and thus I need to learn
> every packager tool in the process, and that's kind of a burden.
> 
> Best regards,
> Marcus
> On Thu, 2020-01-02 at 15:18 +0000, Tom Crane wrote:
> > I am attempting to build the v.3.8 source under Slackware64 Linux
> > and 
> > can't get past this and a few subsequent errors.
> > 
> > Building from the git source results in the same failure.
> > 
> > Build system details:
> >   o gcc 9.2.0
> >   o SWIG version 4.0.1
> >   o Boost 1.72.0
> > 
> > My build scripts and build logs are here 
> > https://www.mklab.rhul.ac.uk/~tom/tvdx/gr/build_problems/
> > 
> > Please advise.
> > 
> > Many thanks
> > Tom Crane
> > 
> 
>