Inline definition problem in current

Doug Barton dougb at FreeBSD.org
Tue Mar 24 20:40:44 PDT 2009


David Schultz wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009, Gustau Perez wrote:
>>  a few time ago I switched to current, right now I've it updated to 
>> yesterday.  While compiling some ports (in fact, building x11/gnome2) I 
>> found that some of them (written in C) are using  some inline functions 
>> (I guess it is because the compiler will replace the call to the 
>> function with the function itself). The problem is that gcc fails with 
>> the following message :
>>        
>>        error: nested function 'XXX' declared but never defined
>>
>>   checking the code, the function is declared and then implemented in a 
>> header file which is included in the offending .c file. The function is 
>> declared as 'inline'. The only solution I found is to change the 
>> definition to static.
>>
>>   Checking pontyhat shows me that many ports are failing because of 
>> this problem. What I can understand is why is this happening, because 
>> the same ports compiles fine in STABLE and the compilers's version in 
>> base seems to be the same (gcc (GCC) 4.2.1 20070719  [FreeBSD], the same 
>> in current) 
> 
> Which other ports were broken for this reason?

I am trying to compile gimp on -current right now and x11/babl and
graphics/gegl both have this problem. Take a look at
http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/i386-8-failure.html for more
examples (click on the link on the right under Package to see the
logs). There are currently over 600 broken ports in -current, all the
ones I clicked on in a completely bogus sample had this same problem.


Doug

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