Bug 224447 - devel/glibmm ustring.h:256:13: error: expected ';' at end of declaration list
Summary: devel/glibmm ustring.h:256:13: error: expected ';' at end of declaration list
Status: Closed Overcome By Events
Alias: None
Product: Ports & Packages
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Individual Port(s) (show other bugs)
Version: Latest
Hardware: Any Any
: --- Affects Many People
Assignee: Walter Schwarzenfeld
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Reported: 2017-12-19 05:28 UTC by Chris Hutchinson
Modified: 2019-02-10 23:29 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Chris Hutchinson 2017-12-19 05:28:04 UTC
I maintain graphics/gimmage, and am unable to build it,
due to the error indicated in the title of this pr.
The problem is the constructor on line 256 of ustring.h

~ustring() noexcept;

which *should* be

~ustring();

version 2.6 on it's github repo[1]
corrects this. Is there any way to

1) create a patch on the current version

or

2) update glibmm to a working version (2.6?)

Thank you for all your time, and consideration.

--Chris

1. https://github.com/GNOME/glibmm/tree/glibmm-2-6
Comment 1 Walter Schwarzenfeld freebsd_triage 2017-12-19 08:04:13 UTC
See also PR 223538,
Comment 2 Ting-Wei Lan 2017-12-19 08:54:39 UTC
(In reply to Chris Hutchinson from comment #0)

1. GNOME never uses GitHub as its official repo. GitHub repo is just a mirror and the official repo is at https://git.gnome.org/browse/glibmm/.

2. glibmm 2.6 is a very old version. The latest version which is compatible with glibmm-2.4 ABI is glibmm 2.52. FreeBSD ports include glibmm 2.50.1, so I think if the update is really needed, the request should be 'update to 2.52.1', not 'update to 2.6' which is actually a downgrade to a version released more than 10 years ago.

I believe the problem is that you don't enable C++11 support in your port. glibmm requires C++11 since version 2.46.
Comment 3 Chris Hutchinson 2017-12-19 15:05:09 UTC
Thanks for the quick reply!
(In reply to Ting-Wei Lan from comment #2)
> (In reply to Chris Hutchinson from comment #0)
> 
> 1. GNOME never uses GitHub as its official repo. GitHub repo is just a
> mirror and the official repo is at https://git.gnome.org/browse/glibmm/.
Thanks for the correction.
> 
> 2. glibmm 2.6 is a very old version. The latest version which is compatible
> with glibmm-2.4 ABI is glibmm 2.52. FreeBSD ports include glibmm 2.50.1, so
> I think if the update is really needed, the request should be 'update to
> 2.52.1', not 'update to 2.6' which is actually a downgrade to a version
> released more than 10 years ago.
Well, that sounds about right. But looking at the 2.52.1 source. I see
that the same errors will occur. clang expects

~ustring();

but gets

~ustring() noexcept;

expects

virtual ~Exception();

but gets

virtual ~Exception() noexcept = 0;

 ...

> 
> I believe the problem is that you don't enable C++11 support in your port.
> glibmm requires C++11 since version 2.46.
That's a good point. Maybe I'm just doing it wrong. But throwing

USES=		compiler:c++11-lang

and

CXXFLAGS+=	-Wc++11-extensions -Wc++11-long-long

didn't get me any closer.

Thanks again, for taking the time to respond.

--Chris
Comment 4 Chris Hutchinson 2017-12-19 17:52:07 UTC
OK there may actually be hope

CXXFLAGS+=	-std=c++11 -stdlib=libc++ -Wc++11-extensions

seems to get me close enough to *hopefully* iron out the
rest of the problems.

Just thought I'd mention it.

--Chris
Comment 5 Chris Hutchinson 2017-12-20 06:06:54 UTC
OK while I'm not completely convinced that up(dating|grading)
devel/glibmm (and friends) isn't strongly recommended. I
*was* finally able to build my port.

For anyone else running into similar trouble. The following
may get you closer to building your port:

add (at least) the following to USES
compiler:c++11-lang

and (at least) this to USE_CXXSTD
c++11

and (at least) the following to CXXFLAGS
-stdlib=libc++ -Wc++11-extensions

--Chris
Comment 6 Ting-Wei Lan 2018-03-31 18:14:29 UTC
glibmm 2.56.0 is now released. It uses glibmm-2.4 ABI so it is compatible with previous releases. It looks like I made a mistake on understanding the versioning scheme of glibmm. glibmm 2.52 is not the last ABI-compatible release. Subsequent even-numbered releases are also compatible.

Even-numbered stable releases are neither made nor branched from the master branch. There are stable branches used for these stable releases. The latest one is glibmm-2-56 and it was branched from master at version 2.50.0.

Odd-numbered unstable releases are made from master branch. They are not compatible with stable releases. This means version 2.55 and 2.56 are not compatible. They are even unrelated to stable releases because they are made from different and possibly diverging branches.
Comment 7 Walter Schwarzenfeld freebsd_triage 2019-02-10 23:29:05 UTC
Version  2.56.0_1,1 is in the port. Compiles fine. Close here with overcome by events.