RE: [gtkmm] GCC 3.3.1 breaks gtkmm

[Murray Cumming Comneon com]

> From: Erich Schubert [mailto:erich schubert mucl de] 
> > I thought that gtkmm 2.2.x had other gcc 3.3.x problems 
> that had been
> > patched, but that it now worked. Are you the regular debian 
> maintainer?
> 
> I am not the regular Debian maintainer. I'm at a bug squashing party,
> looking for release-critical bugs and i got bitten by these
> incompatibilities with GCC 3.3.1 CVS 20030626, a few weeks 
> ago when the
> application i was working at suddenly refused to build with g++.
> There are two issues, i opened a bugzilla bug for them by now.
> The fix with reinterpret_cast instead of an invalid static_cast chain
> (iirc you can't static_cast a class to a derived class, especially not
> when using const types)
> 
> The package i built is working here, but not thoroughly tested.
> I'll try building the demo apps. etc then maybe upload.
> I'm in contact with the maintainer, maybe he'll do the update himself.

By the way, people, this the gtkmm bug that he has just opened:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=117494

At the moment I can't make much sense of it. Please reply in the bug rather
than this email thread.

Murray Cumming
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www.murrayc.com