Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:42:52 -0500 From: Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com> To: Ben Kelly <ben@wanderview.com> Cc: Gustau Perez <gperez@entel.upc.edu>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Inline definition problem in current Message-ID: <790a9fff0903240842k6ab28ab5k1d1a46714fdfe804@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <D7A9B95D-AD8D-4F2A-B077-E48E9296EAEB@wanderview.com> References: <49C80DBA.80407@entel.upc.edu> <D7A9B95D-AD8D-4F2A-B077-E48E9296EAEB@wanderview.com>
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On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 10:05 PM, Ben Kelly <ben@wanderview.com> wrote: > On Mar 23, 2009, at 6:31 PM, Gustau Perez wrote: >> >> a few time ago I switched to current, right now I've it updated to >> yesterday. =A0While compiling some ports (in fact, building x11/gnome2) = I >> found that some of them (written in C) are using =A0some inline function= s (I >> guess it is because the compiler will replace the call to the function w= ith >> the function itself). The problem is that gcc fails with the following >> message : >> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 error: nested function 'XXX' declared but never = defined >> >> =A0checking the code, the function is declared and then implemented in a >> header file which is included in the offending .c file. The function is >> declared as 'inline'. The only solution I found is to change the definit= ion >> to static. >> >> =A0Checking pontyhat shows me that many ports are failing because of thi= s >> problem. What I can understand is why is this happening, because the sam= e >> ports compiles fine in STABLE and the compilers's version in base seems = to >> be the same (gcc (GCC) 4.2.1 20070719 =A0[FreeBSD], the same in current) >> =A0Can anyone help with this problem ? > > Check out the arch@ discussion about "C99 Inlines" and this commit: > > =A0http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=3Drevision&revision=3D189824 > > It seems like they might be related. > > Hope that helps. > I can confirm that reverting this change allows the audio/faad port to buil= d. Scot
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