Bug 220827 – media-sound/seq24-0.8.7 fails with >=dev-libs/libsigc++-2.2

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Thomas Kuther 2008-05-07 22:57:44 UTC]

seq24 fails to compile agains libsigc++-2.2 with following error:

---------------------------
perfedit.h:67: error: 'SigC' is not a namespace-name
perfedit.h:67: error: expected namespace-name before ';' token
mainwnd.h:112: error: 'SigC' has not been declared
mainwnd.h:112: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of 'Connection' with no
type
mainwnd.h:112: error: expected ';' before 'm_timeout_connect'
mainwnd.cpp: In constructor 'mainwnd::mainwnd(perform*)':
mainwnd.cpp:136: error: 'm_timeout_connect' was not declared in this scope
make[2]: *** [mainwnd.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/media-sound/seq24-0.8.7/work/seq24-0.8.7/src'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
------------------------------------------

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. have ~arch libsigc++-2.2 installed
2. try to compile seq24

Actual Results:  
it fails

Expected Results:  
it should compile

[Comment 1 Thomas Kuther 2008-05-07 23:00:07 UTC]

Created attachment 152393 [details, diff]
seq24-0.8.7-sigc22_fix.patch

This patch fixes it.

Respecfully taken from Tony Graffy's openSUSE 11.0/packman seq24 rpm

[Comment 2 Thomas Kuther 2008-05-07 23:20:00 UTC]

Erm, additionally, libsigc++ should be added to RDEPEND in the ebuild, of course.

[Comment 3 Thomas Kuther 2008-05-07 23:27:41 UTC]

Created attachment 152401 [details, diff]
seq24-0.8.7.ebuild.patch

proposed patch for the ebuild

[Comment 4 Alexis Ballier 2008-06-04 13:05:48 UTC]

applied, thanks a lot!

even given how much I hate conditional patching, this seems to be the sanest solution here.

and please dont forget to mail it upstream so that future releases wont need patching