[Buildroot] [PATCH v2] boost: fix getchar issue with uClibc and gcc <= 4.8.2

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Thu Mar 31 01:48:02 UTC 2016


Hello,

On Thu, 31 Mar 2016 00:19:36 +0200, Jörg Krause wrote:
> getchar() is defined as a macro in uClibc. This hits gcc bug 58952 [1] for all
> gcc versions <= 4.8.2 and building boost/test fails:
> 
> ./boost/test/impl/unit_test_main.ipp: In function 'int boost::unit_test::unit_test_main(boost::unit_test::init_unit_test_func, int, char**)':
> ./boost/test/impl/unit_test_main.ipp:194:18: error: expected unqualified-id before '(' token
> 
> To allow building boost/test with uClibc based toolchains with gcc <= 4.8.2 use
> parenthesis for std::getchar.
> 
> Fixes:
> http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/506/506b3b1b4087318a4247456782ac9e4f128d5db6/
> http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/5f2/5f2a8fb5cb823160542ee721591867b34bd25de6/
> http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/e3e/e3e6002ac5b40f7f03d32ba9da99f6497f01b42f/
> .. and more
> 
> Upstream status: Pending
> https://github.com/boostorg/test/pull/97
> 
> [1] https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58952
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jörg Krause <joerg.krause at embedded.rocks>
> ---
> v2:
>  - add autobuild fixes

Weird, I remember discussing this issue quite a long time ago, and I
think we had already fixed it. But it looks like not. So thanks for
submitting this patch. Applied!

Thomas
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