Re: what feature fixed the gcc-5 preprocessor build error from a few months back?

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>]

On Mon, 7 Dec 2015, Andreas Oberritter wrote:

> Hello Robert,
>
> On 07.12.2015 10:44, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> >   once upon a time, i asked a question about the origin of this OE
> > build error using gcc-5 to build ncurses-native:
> >
> >> In file included from
> > /home/rpjday/oe/builds/oe/qemux86/tmp-glibc/work/x86_64-linux/ncurses-native/5.9-r15.1/ncurses-5.9/ncurses/curses.priv.h:283:0,
> >>                  from ../ncurses/lib_gen.c:19:
> >> _20141.c:835:15: error: expected ')' before 'int'
> >> ../include/curses.h:1594:56: note: in definition of macro
> > 'mouse_trafo'
> >>  #define mouse_trafo(y,x,to_screen)
> > wmouse_trafo(stdscr,y,x,to_screen)
> >
> >   it didn't take long to be pointed to an explanation on the fedora
> > mailing list:
> >
> > http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2015-February/101820.html
> >
> > "	these packages failed to build because of the changes in the preprocessor;
> > 	gcc started to generate line directives to better detect whether a macro
> > 	tokens come from a system header - see http://gcc.gnu.org/PR60723
> > 	The fix is to use the -P option if the code isn't prepared to deal with
> > 	such directives.
> >
> >   so i just added to my local.conf:
> >
> > CPPFLAGS_append_pn-ncurses-native = " -P"
> >
> >   that issue was apparently fixed and i haven't needed to do that for
> > a while. however, i'm now using someone's custom version of OE-core
> > and that very error is back, so what was it that was tweaked to deal
> > with it? thanks.
>
> see this commit in fido:
>
> commit 3a5435b371c84ec28b6936b8c8fa6541a592d061
> Author: Martin Stolpe <martinstolpe@gmail.com>
> Date:   Wed Jun 10 16:28:26 2015 +0200
>
>     ncurses: fix native builds when host has gcc5
>
>     GCC"s preprocessor starts to add newlines which are not
>     handled properly by ncurses build system startin from
>     version 5.0.
>
>     See also: https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7870
>
>     Signed-off-by: Martin Stolpe <martin.stolpe@gmail.com>
>     Signed-off-by: Joshua Lock <joshua.lock@collabora.co.uk>
>
> In master it's probably been solved by updating ncurses.

  ah, that's pretty much the hackaround i used once upon a time, and i
can see that that patch is not in the vendor-specific OE-Core layer i
was given. so that definitely explains that problem. thanks.

rday

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