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Date:      Tue, 24 Mar 2009 23:34:51 -0400
From:      David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Gustau Perez <gperez@entel.upc.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Inline definition problem in current
Message-ID:  <20090325033451.GA17442@zim.MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <49C80DBA.80407@entel.upc.edu>
References:  <49C80DBA.80407@entel.upc.edu>

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On Mon, Mar 23, 2009, Gustau Perez wrote:
>  a few time ago I switched to current, right now I've it updated to 
> yesterday.  While compiling some ports (in fact, building x11/gnome2) I 
> found that some of them (written in C) are using  some inline functions 
> (I guess it is because the compiler will replace the call to the 
> function with the function itself). The problem is that gcc fails with 
> the following message :
>        
>        error: nested function 'XXX' declared but never defined
> 
>   checking 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 
> definition to static.
> 
>   Checking pontyhat shows me that many ports are failing because of 
> this problem. What I can understand is why is this happening, because 
> the same ports compiles fine in STABLE and the compilers's version in 
> base seems to be the same (gcc (GCC) 4.2.1 20070719  [FreeBSD], the same 
> in current) 

Which other ports were broken for this reason?



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