Re: Ambiguous partial specialization, gtkmm 2.2.5, Sun compiler

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 10:47 -0400, Mark Wilson wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> This is in reference to: 
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtkmm-list/2004-March/msg00072.html
> 
> I have the exact same problem with Sun Studio 10 on Solaris 5.9, 
> compiling gtkmm 2.2.5.

Please use a newer version, and see the ChangeLog to find out how the
various build problems were fixed.

>   Was there a resolution to this problem?  I did 
> not see one in the thread.  Perhaps it has been fixed in a later version?
> 
> I have managed to get rid of most of the errors by "disambiguating" 
> arrayhandle.h.  I eliminated the default template-template parameter 
> throughout arrayhandle.h, and explicitly used that default in declarations.
> 
> I don't know if the "ambiguous partial..." is a problem with the Sun 
> compiler, or if gtkmm is using now-illegal C++ syntax, or if gtkmm's use 
> here is a gcc "idiom" of some sort.

I don't know either, but it was easy to work around it. It's certainly
not a gcc-specific thing.

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