Bug 789390

Summary:	dev-libs/xapian-1.2.25 fails to compile with gcc-11
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Agostino Sarubbo <ago>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Anthony Basile <blueness>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	sam
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	732706
Attachments:	build.log

Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev

2021-05-11 06:28:50 UTC

https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2020/07/04/gentoo-tinderbox/

Issue: dev-libs/xapian-1.2.25 fails to compile with gcc-11.
Discovered on: amd64 (internal ref: tinderbox)

NOTE:
This machine uses GCC-11: https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-11/porting_to.html

Comment 1 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev

2021-05-11 06:28:53 UTC

Created attachment 706902 [details]
build.log

build log and emerge --info

Comment 2 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev

2021-05-11 06:28:56 UTC

Possible context of error(s):

/var/tmp/portage/dev-libs/xapian-1.2.25/work/xapian-core-1.2.25/backends/brass/brass_check.cc:40:48: error: reference to ‘byte’ is ambiguous

Comment 3 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev

2021-06-15 03:20:34 UTC

The bug has been closed via the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=35f3c535b370e4965ae9d5c40021767029f91122

commit 35f3c535b370e4965ae9d5c40021767029f91122
Author:     Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
AuthorDate: 2021-06-15 03:19:47 +0000
Commit:     Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2021-06-15 03:19:47 +0000

    dev-libs/xapian: workaround build failure with GCC 11 for 1.2.25
    
    Force C++14 for now. This is an older version we'll be cleaning up soon, but
    we may as well let it build. Newer versions are fine.
    
    (Also, this style of error usually results in a noisy patch.)
    
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/789390
    Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>

 dev-libs/xapian/xapian-1.2.25.ebuild | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)