Bug 100025 – apache-2.0.54 fails to build with gcc-2.95.3

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2005-07-23 06:40:04 UTC]

Some declarations in the middle of blocks of code cause apache to fail to build
on gcc2.

[Comment 1 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2005-07-23 06:40:23 UTC]

Created attachment 64127 [details, diff]
apache-2.0.54-gcc2.patch

Patch to fix said issue.

[Comment 2 Michael Stewart (vericgar) (RETIRED) 2005-07-23 16:28:07 UTC]

It looks like I introduced this with my patch to add AddDirectoryIndex and
RemoveDirectoryIndex.

I'm trying to figure out why changing where index_names is defined matters. 
Is this just a quirk with gcc 2.95.3, or is my code out of standard in some way,
or bad form? (This patch was one of my first tries at something more then a
simple "Hello World" in c/c++)

[Comment 3 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2005-07-24 01:23:14 UTC]

OK, I did not check if it might be from a patch, as the damn p3 is slow ;p 
Anyhow, gcc2 do not support any declarations that is not at the start of {} or
global .. I think the c99 spec (or whatever) only started allowing this, and
thus the legality of it in gcc3+.

[Comment 4 Michael Stewart (vericgar) (RETIRED) 2005-09-17 16:40:55 UTC]

Sorry, I forgot about this bug.

It's now been fixed in the SVN repository that our patch tarball is rolled from.
I plan on rolling a new tarball before new-style becomes stable (sometime tomorrow).

Resolving as fixed.