On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 05:19:49PM -0500, Eric Bavier wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Aug 2016 16:16:11 -0400
> Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> wrote:
> > My understanding is that '-fpermissive' downgrades some compiler errors
> > to warnings. Is that correct?
>
> Correct. Specifically, this is to avoid:
>
> MHashPP.cc:123:38: error: invalid conversion from ‘uint8_t* {aka unsigned
> char*}’ to ‘char*’ [-fpermissive]
>
> which I'm not comfortable developing a better fix for.
Okay. Can you mention that specific error in a code comment? It seems
like valuable information to me.
>
> >
> > > diff --git a/gnu/packages/patches/steghide-fixes.patch
> > > b/gnu/packages/patches/steghide-fixes.patch
> >
> > I don't understand what this patch does (I don't know any C++). Can you
> > add some comments explaining it? Should we try to get the upstream
> > maintainers to apply it?
>
> This patch fixes an "undefined ULONG_MAX" error and "specializing
> member ‘...’ requires ‘template<>’ syntax" errors.
>
> Upstream appears to currently be in limbo, but I just sent the patch to
> the mailing list.
Okay, maybe wait a couple days in case they respond?
