NetXMS waiting to commit

[sam]

Xin LI wrote:
> Hi, Sam,
>
> sam wrote:
>>> I think you may want to try to build it on a -CURRENT box or with GCC
>>> 4.2.x, this is not a configure problem I think.
>>>
>>> Let me know if you still want the config.log.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>   
>> i am tested netxms-port on 6.2-RELEASE i386/amd64 (without problem)
>
> Please understand that we really wanted it to be gcc 4.2 compatible, 
> because it's the version that we will ship with 7.0-RELEASE, which 
> will be released later this year.  If it won't work with gcc 4.2 then 
> it would be advisable to mark it as USE_GCC=34 or so.
>
> My own experience is that gcc warnings indicates some real problems 
> (sometimes trivial or even false positive, but sometimes they can 
> really cause problems).
>
> I think NetXMS is an amazing software and we want to have it, and it 
> would be even better if we can ship an package that can be easily 
> installed with 7.0-R :-)  What's the timeframe the upstream developers 
> will support gcc 4.2?  We can fix the problems our own, but if the 
> upstream developers are willing to make some modifications we could 
> avoid some duplicated work.
>
> Cheers,
>
developer's comment:
Work on making NetXMS GCC 4.2.x compatible is almost done, and next 
version should compile without problems. We expect to release a new 
version in a week or two.