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Build failures with gcc 4.4

Message ID 200904142312.16137.ville.skytta@iki.fi
State New
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Ville Skyttä April 14, 2009, 8:12 p.m. UTC 
  On Friday 27 February 2009, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to build VDR 1.6.0-2 for the upcoming Fedora 11 release which
> has gcc 4.4.  There are a bunch of compilation errors as gcc has again
> become less forgiving for C++ than it used to be.
>
> One very common source of problems is explained here:
> http://markmail.org/message/e5y6atneqztuvpw6#query:
> +page:1+mid:hdkehz7bgl5b6vgc+state:results
>
> There are quite a few of these problems in VDR 1.6.0-2 ("error: invalid
> conversion from 'const char*' to 'char*'").  I started patching but quickly
> realized that this is a job for someone who actually knows what he's doing.
[...]

...but until there's a real fix available, the attached ugly patch at least 
makes the build succeed with gcc 4.4.
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Patch

diff -up vdr-1.6.0/Makefile~ vdr-1.6.0/Makefile
--- vdr-1.6.0/Makefile~	2008-02-29 23:43:03.000000000 +0200
+++ vdr-1.6.0/Makefile	2009-04-14 19:10:22.000000000 +0300
@@ -82,6 +82,10 @@  all: vdr i18n
 %.o: %.c
 	$(CXX) $(CXXFLAGS) -c $(DEFINES) $(INCLUDES) $<
 
+recording.o: CXXFLAGS += -fpermissive
+svdrp.o: CXXFLAGS += -fpermissive
+videodir.o: CXXFLAGS += -fpermissive
+
 # Dependencies:
 
 MAKEDEP = $(CXX) -MM -MG