2015-11-11 22:10 GMT+04:00 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
It seems to be a new breakage, I have to check it.
>
>> 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).
As a workaround one can pass -Wno-c++-compat as an extra flag to build
local Wireshark versions without having to patch anything.
Cheers,
Balint
