Bug 32192 – gst-plugins-0.6.4 dies during compilation

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Mark Chappell 2003-10-28 07:56:33 UTC]

When I try to emerge gst-plugins v 0.6.4 (with emerge --update --deep world) It
dies complaining about sytax errors and undefined variables.  I believe that
this is partially because I am still using gcc 2.95.3, however portage insists
that anything >2.95.3 is still unstable.

gcc <3 doesn't like variables to be defined other than at the start of
functions, the following patch defines the variable at the start of the function

--- gst-plugins-0.6.4/gst/level/filter.func       2003-10-28 15:25:31.000000000
+0000
+++ gst-plugins-0.6.4/gst/level/filter.func    2003-10-28 15:16:44.000000000 +0000
@@ -8,2 +8,3 @@
   register int j;
+  gdouble normalizer;
   double squaresum = 0.0;      /* square sum of the integer samples */
@@ -14,3 +15,3 @@
 
-  gdouble normalizer = (double) (1 << resolution);
+  normalizer = (double) (1 << resolution);

Reproducible: Always
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[Comment 1 David Love 2003-10-28 13:05:43 UTC]

I had the same problem here (gcc 2.95.3).  Your patch fixed it.  Thanks.

[Comment 2 foser (RETIRED) 2003-10-28 15:21:24 UTC]

can you attach patches please ?

[Comment 3 Mark Chappell 2003-10-29 00:48:46 UTC]

Created attachment 19922 [details, diff]
patch

Apologies,  patch should now be an attachment

[Comment 4 foser (RETIRED) 2003-10-29 02:43:39 UTC]

no problem, was just a hint

just added the patch to gst-plugins-0.6.4 

thanks for the report & fix