[Dbus-cxx-users] dbus-cxx fails to build on osx

[Darrell S. <dr...@nr...>]

I tried to enter a new bug report, but apparently only members of the  
project may report bugs...

dbus-cxx fails to compile on osx because osx does not implement POSIX  
timers. Apple claims that these timers are an *optional* POSIX  
extension and that programs should check to see if they are available:

http://lists.apple.com/archives/unix-porting/2006/Apr/msg00010.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/unix-porting/2006/Apr/msg00012.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/unix-porting/2009/May/msg00004.html

I explored a bit to see what would be the next roadblock and that  
seems to be gcc/g++ issues:

g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I../. -I../. -I/opt/local/include/ 
dbus-1.0 -I/opt/local/lib/dbus-1.0/include -I/opt/local/include/sigc+ 
+-2.0 -I/opt/local/lib/sigc++-2.0/include -g -O2 -MT connection.lo -MD  
-MP -MF .deps/connection.Tpo -c connection.cpp  -fno-common -DPIC - 
o .libs/connection.o
In file included from ../dbus-cxx/object.h:14,
                  from connection.h:32,
                  from connection.cpp:20:
../dbus-cxx/interface.h:75: error: default template arguments may not  
be used in function templates
../dbus-cxx/interface.h:201: error: default template arguments may not  
be used in function templates
In file included from connection.h:32,
                  from connection.cpp:20:

so I assume this is some new feature of gcc/g++ which my version (gcc  
4.2.1) does not yet support?