Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] GCC GTK3 Wireshark build warnings ?

[Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/11/15 12:28, Bill Meier wrote:
> When building GTK3 Wireshark on my Fedora system (after not having done
> so for a while), I'm getting many warnings similar to the following:
>
>
>   CC       libgtkui_a-about_dlg.o
> In file included from /usr/include/gtk-3.0/gtk/gtk.h:263:0,
>                   from about_dlg.c:28:
> /usr/include/gtk-3.0/gtk/deprecated/gtkstyle.h:454:43: error: identifier
> "and" is a special operator name in C++ [-Werror=c++-compat]
>   GDK_DEPRECATED_IN_3_0_FOR(GtkStyleContext and gtk_render_background)
>                                             ^
>
> [versions: Fedora 23; GCC 5.1.1; GTK3 3.18.2]
>
> -Wc++-compat seems to have been added in March 2013 (g557df88), so I
> don't know why I'm now getting the warnings (although it's been some
> number of months since I've built GTK3 Wireshark with GCC);
>   Warnings didn't show with previous versions of GCC compiler ?
>   GTK changes ??
>   ???

It looks like Balint already sent a patch to Gtk:

https://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev/201403/msg00042.html

> So: it seems we want to continue to support GTK3 ?

Yes, I think so.  At least RHEL 6 needs to continue to use the Gtk+ GUI 
(since its Qt isn't new enough).  (Though I still stick with Gtk2.)

> and thus it seems that the -Wc++-compat compile flag would need to be
> removed when building GTK stuff or ??

That's probably not unreasonable (as long as the rest of Wireshark still 
gets the flag).