Compilation failing on latest ddd and Mandrake Linux 9.0

[Steve Bridges]

Hi,

I don't know if this might be fixed in the unstable version, but the current 
stable release fails to compile on a stock Mandrake 9.0 system (gcc 3.2). I 
thought it was worth mentioning since I noticed a few people having similar 
problems in the ddd mailing list archive.

I've tracked down the problems and it looks like the configure script is 
incorrectly detecting HAVE_IOSTATE and HAVE_STREAMPOS.

It falls over in streampos.h, at the lines:

#if !HAVE_STREAMPOS
typedef long streampos;
#endif

at the end of the file. Commenting out the typedef line gets it past this 
file.

Secondly, it falls over in strclass.C, function istream& operator>>(istream& 
s, string& x) at the lines:

#if HAVE_IOSTATE
    ios::iostate new_state = s.rdstate();
#else
    int new_state = s.rdstate();
#endif

Commenting out all except the line 'ios::iostate new_state = s.rdstate();' 
makes things compile straight through and ddd now works.

I don't really know my way around 'configure' so I can't dig much deeper into 
this, but if you need any more info or copies of any files, feel free to mail 
me. 

Hope this report is of use, and thanks to the ddd team for a great piece of 
software.

Steve Bridges
Perl/C++ programmer
steve@midian.eclipse.co.uk


Output of ddd --configuration:
GNU DDD 3.3.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu)
Copyright (C) 1995-1999 Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany.
Copyright (C) 1999-2001 Universität Passau, Germany.

Compiled with GCC 3.2 (Mandrake Linux 9.0 3.2-1mdk), GNU libc 2.2
Requires X11R6, Xt11R6, Motif 2.1 (GNU/LessTif Version 2.1 Release 0.93.34)
Includes Athena Panner, DDD core
Built 2003-01-09 by Steve Bridges <steve@192.168.1.2>.


GCC compiler version (gcc --version):
gcc (GCC) 3.2 (Mandrake Linux 9.0 3.2-1mdk)


GDB version (gdb --version):
GNU gdb 5.2.1-2mdk (Mandrake Linux)