Re: [Gimp-developer] GNU++11 not allowed with Objective-C code

[Partha Bagchi <partha1b gmail com>]

On Sat, Apr 7, 2018 at 5:03 PM, Ell <ell_se yahoo com> wrote:

> On Sat, 7 Apr 2018 15:43:30 -0400
> Partha Bagchi <partha1b gmail com> wrote:
>
> > My apologies. I should have framed that as 2 different issues. One
> > about
> > the compilation and the other that we should probably be using C++14
> > (or 11) instead of gnu++11.
>
> The exact flag we use is not hard coded, it's determined by
> AX_CXX_COMPILE_STDCXX() during configure.  We *could* ask it for a
> strictly standard-compliant mode, but we're not that concerned about
> it.  We might want to use some GCC extension, based on some other
> configure test, or whatnot.
>
> > In any case, the verbose mode may not be particularly helpful:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > In there you can see "-xobjective-c" is being used to compile
> > gimp-parallel.cc. Also, you're seeing -std=c++14 because I have
> > CXXFLAGS defined that way.
>
> Thanks.  So, we've been passing "-xobjective-c" unconditionally to all
> compiled files on Mac.  Commit 06950be7f0 should fix that, only passing
> it when compiling C files.
>
> --
> Ell

I was about to post that!!

Anyway, I did a git pull and something went haywire. I don't know what! I
even did make distclean. I am getting realms of text starting with:

  Making all in tools
>  cd .. && /bin/sh
> /Users/partha/projects/src/gimp/gitsource/std/gimp/missing automake-1.15
> --gnu tools/Makefile
>  cd .. && /bin/sh ./config.status tools/Makefile depfiles
> config.status: creating tools/Makefile
> config.status: executing depfiles commands
>   CCLD     gimptool-2.0
> gimptool.o:1:1: error: source file is not valid UTF-8
>
> <CF><FA><ED><FE><U+0007><U+0000><U+0000><U+0001><U+0003><U+0000><U+0000><U+0000><U+0001><U+0000><U+0000><U+0000><U+0004><U+0000><U+0000><U+0000><F0><U+0002><U+0000>...
> ^
> gimptool.o:1:2: error: source file is not valid UTF-8
>
> <CF><FA><ED><FE><U+0007><U+0000><U+0000><U+0001><U+0003><U+0000><U+0000><U+0000><U+0001><U+0000><U+0000><U+0000><U+0004><U+0000><U+0000><U+0000><F0><U+0002><U+0000>...
>     ^
> gimptool.o:1:3: error: source file is not valid UTF-8
>
> <CF><FA><ED><FE><U+0007><U+0000><U+0000><U+0001><U+0003><U+0000><U+0000><U+0000><U+0001><U+0000><U+0000><U+0000><U+0004><U+0000><U+0000><U+0000><F0><U+0002><U+0000>...
>         ^
> gimptool.o:1:4: error: source file is not valid UTF-8
>
> <CF><FA><ED><FE><U+0007><U+0000><U+0000><U+0001><U+0003><U+0000><U+0000><U+0000><U+0001><U+0000><U+0000><U+0000><U+0004><U+0000><U+0000><U+0000><F0><U+0002><U+0000>...
>             ^
> gimptool.o:1:5: error: expected identifier or '('
>
> <CF><FA><ED><FE><U+0007><U+0000><U+0000><U+0001><U+0003><U+0000><U+0000><U+0000><U+0001><U+0000><U+0000><U+0000><U+0004><U+0000><U+0000><U+0000><F0><U+0002><U+0000>...
>                 ^
> gimptool.o:1:6: warning: null character ignored [-Wnull-character]
>
> <CF><FA><ED><FE><U+0007><U+0000><U+0000><U+0001><U+0003><U+0000><U+0000><U+0000><U+0001><U+0000><U+0000><U+0000><U+0004><U+0000><U+0000><U+0000><F0><U+0002><U+0000>...
>                         ^
> gimptool.o:1:7: warning: null character ignored [-Wnull-character]
>
> <CF><FA><ED><FE><U+0007><U+0000><U+0000><U+0001><U+0003><U+0000><U+0000><U+0000><U+0001><U+0000><U+0000><U+0000><U+0004><U+0000><U+0000><U+0000><F0><U+0002><U+0000>...

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