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Package: gcc
Version: 4:4.4.5-1
Severity: normal
Tags: l10n
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I'm reporting this bug against GCC (current version installed is
4:4.4.5-1)
This is an internationalization bug.
This is "Normal" priority (priority 6).
There is a workaround: never use -Wall or -Werror on the same gcc
command line with -lncursesw or to link files that #include <wctype.h> .
My usual build options are "gcc -Wall -Werror ..." In attempting to
link an ncursesw package I found that the wide-character functions in
ncursesw were not linkable. In trying ever-more-trival cases to try
to figure it out, I eventually (accidentally) built straight from
the command line, leaving out the build options, and a call to a
wide-character function linked. After some confusion, I realized that
the relevant difference was the absence of my usual build options
rather than whatever-it-was that I was testing. Taking the build
options out of my makefile allowed the main project I was working on
to build. Experimentation reveals that either of these build options
(-Wall or -Werror) is sufficient to prevent linking.
The bug against gcc is that regardless of the extreme macrology in
/lib/include/ncursesw/ncurses.h and /lib/include/wctype.h these
build options ought not affect the linker's view of available
functions.
Affected functions include basically everything which uses the wide
character type defined in wctype.h or the functions defined on ints
in ctype.h. These functions include, but are probably not limited to,
in_wch, mvin_wch, mvwin_wch, win_wch, get_wch, wget_wch, mvget_wch,
mvwget_wch, unget_wch, get_wstr, getn_wstr, wget_wstr, wgetn_wstr,
mvget_wstr, mvgetn_wstr, mvwget_wstr, mvwgetn_wstr,get_wstr, getn_wstr,
wget_wstr, wgetn_wstr, mvget_wstr, mvgetn_wstr, mvwget_wstr,
mvwgetn_wstr, ins_wch, mvins_wch, mvwins_wch, wins_wch, iswgraph,
isgraph, iswspace, isspace, iswalnum, isalnum, iswctype, etc.
example of the error:
bear@janus:~/src/xxh$make display.o
make display.o
gcc -Wall -Werror -lncursesw -c -o display.o display.c
cc1: warnings being treated as errors
display.c: In function ‘Disp_GetKey’:
display.c:183: error: implicit declaration of function ‘get_wch’
display.c: In function ‘Disp_GetKeynames’:
display.c:334: error: implicit declaration of function ‘iswgraph’
display.c: In function ‘Disp_Say’:
display.c:1333: error: implicit declaration of function ‘iswspace’
..........etc........
make: *** [display.o] Error 1
bear@janus:~/src/xxh$
display.c starts with the lines:
#define _X_OPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
/* stdlib for qsort */
#include <stdlib.h>
/* wchar for wint_t type */
#include <wchar.h>
/* wide ncurses for display and input handling */
#include <ncursesw/curses.h>
/* malloc for calloc and free */
#include <malloc.h>
/* string.h for memcpy */
#include <string.h>
#include <assert.h>
......etc.......
Ray "Bear" Dillinger
My system: AMD64, dual-core, prefer 'stable' release, up-to-date as of
July 16 2011.
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