James Tyrer posted on Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:56:26 -0700 as excerpted: > On 12/19/2011 02:16 PM, James Tyrer wrote: >> For several weeks building KDEPIM from GIT "origin/KDE/4.7" has failed >> with this error: >> >> /usr/GIT/KDE/kdepim/messagecomposer/akonadisender.cpp:138: error: >> reference to 'Message' is ambiguous >> >> However the tag v4.7.3 builds OK, indicating that the source was broken >> since release 4.7.3 was tagged. Now, release 4.7.4 has been tagged and >> it will not build. >> > I have to say that although I probably would have written: "util.cpp" > differently (in the namespace Message::Util to match util.h), I have not > been able to find an error. I note that I am not a C++ expert -- I do > not like the language. But, it must either be a very subtle error or a > compiler bug.
As you likely know by now, I don't even have kdepim installed any longer, but... You're building from git, and you know 4.7.3 works and something later doesn't work. Have you tried git bisect-ing the problem? I don't claim to know either C or C++, but I can git bisect, and once it's bisected to a single commit, between limiting the code I'm looking at to just that commit and what I remember from pascal back in college, I can often find the issue. And even if I can't, once it's down to a single commit, I can both file a bug already bisected to a single commit, and often, revert that individual commit and otherwise stay current, while the appropriate people look at the bug I filed. I do that reasonably routinely with the kernel, or at least I did until kernel.org went down, last I checked kernel bugzilla wasn't yet back up, and have done the same thing with at least one kde bug (for 4.6.x) as well. Tho I must say, given that I had already bisected the kde (plasma) bug to a single commit, I was rather disappointed with the results. Looks like you're already on the CC. KDE bug #271532. https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=271532 The kernel folks have been far more responsive to bugs than kde, for that bug and others. <shrug> But at least the window rules workaround worked for me. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde-linux mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-linux. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
