libreoffice and gcc44+

[Baptiste Daroussin]

2011/3/24 Andriy Gapon <avg at freebsd.org>

>
> Baptiste,
>
> I found it necessary to use the attached patch for libreoffice compilation
> to
> succeed with gcc45. (patch name doesn't conform to the ports standards).
> Without the patch my compilation failed because FILE declaration was not
> found.
>
> I am CC-ing ports@ as this is an example of a classical base gcc vs gcc44+
> problem.  The reasons for this issue are described here:
> http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.3/porting_to.html
> See "Header dependency cleanup".
>
> I am surprised that this kind of problem has sneaked into the release code
> of
> libreoffice.  It could mean two things: (a) they use older gcc themselves;
> (b)
> FILE/stdio.h inclusion was brought in by some other inclusion likely in
> Linux
> system header files.
> In any case I think that the upstream developers should have used cstdio
> header
> inclusion and std::FILE if they really need that.
> Are you a regular on their development channels?  Maybe you could forward
> the
> report to them?
>
> Thanks!
> --
> Andriy Gapon
>

I'll forward them your report.

Thanks,
Bapt