On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 7:49 AM, Pino Toscano <toscano.p...@tiscali.it>wrote:
> > Although having a reserved, generic error code macro might be > > useful(?), `ED' is a very generic identifier. For example, clang > > uses it in many parts of its code, which makes the build fail on > > GNU/Hurd. I think it's likely that we'll meet this problem more than > > once. > > Yes, this hit few package compilations on the Debian buildds. So far I > collected: > > - boost >= 1.40: > - boost/math/special_functions/ellint_rd.hpp: local variable `ED' > - gentle: > - enums.h: enum value `ED' > - gpsim: > - src/dspic/dspic-instructions.h: class `ED' > - httrack: > - src/htslib.c: `ED' used as hexadecimal number (the 0x prefix is > prepended using a macro) > > Among the above, I fixed boost renaming the variable to ED_ (with a > patch in the Debian packaging), otherwise many important packages > couldn't have been compiled. Please also report bugs against these packages. As Roland points out, these are reserved names and they shouldn't be using them. Thomas
