Re: [Ekiga-list] Compilation failure in 3.2.4

[Eugen Dedu <Eugen Dedu pu-pm univ-fcomte fr>]

Damien Sandras wrote:
> Le samedi 23 mai 2009 à 15:59 -0700, Joseph Comfort a écrit :
> > I am hitting compilation errors with the latest v3.2.4. I got through the 
> > ICE reported earlier by upgrading the gcc packages to v4.4 (from SuSE 
> > factory).
> >
> > Now I have the errors:
> > ../../../../lib/engine/components/opal/opal-account.cpp: In member 
> > function ‘void Opal::Account::on_edit_form_submitted(bool, Ekiga::Form&)’:
> >
> > ../../../../lib/engine/components/opal/opal-account.cpp:438: error: 
> > exception handling disabled, use -fexceptions to enable
> > make[6]: *** [opal-account.lo] Error 1
> >
> > I compiled the ptlib and opal libraries OK.  As I recall, -fno-exceptions 
> > is used for opal.  Is there now a conflict?  How do I make a change 
> > without editing every Makefile?
> >
> > My goal is to get a working ekiga version on SuSE 11.1 (with KDE 3.5), on 
> > a 64-bit machine.  It has been total frustration.  Version 3.0.1 that 
> > comes with the system does not transmit sound either direction.  I found 
> > and installed rpms for ekiga v3.2.4, and relevant libraries, from the 
> > SuSE build service.  Execution immediately gave a segmentation fault.
>
> It seems that your gcc is configured to not accept exceptions in C++
> code. That is pretty weird. Check your default gcc configuration.

No, this is a gcc 4.4 problem, for sure.

There are about ten files which use exceptions, I think they have the 
same problem (grep 'catch *(' softs/ekiga/ekiga-svn/ -r).

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Eugen