[Easysoap-developers] [PATCH] gcc34 build and correctness fixes

[Terrence C. <ter...@tr...>]

I have identified the build problems on gcc 3.4(.5).

In 00_gcc34-compat.patch:

1) gcc34 now requires the "typename" identifier to identify types 
declared behind a class: e.g. DispatchMap::Iterator.  For some of these 
instances, the code was already folded in MEMBER_TYPE() to append the 
"typename" automatically.  I have added MEMBER_TYPE to the other 
instances where it was not applied already.

2) gcc34 is stricter about pointer casting semantics.  In XMLParser.cpp, 
I have added "reinterpret_cast" to the offending implicit casts.

3) gcc34 requires explicit template notification for specializations.

This does not fix all the problems with gcc34.  Unfortunately, the 
AC_CXX_TEMPLATE_KEYWORD_QUALIFIER macro (which sets MEMBER_TYPE) appears 
to be broken on gcc34.  You can work around this with a manual override 
by running configure with CXXFLAGS set to 
"-DHAVE_TEMPLATE_KEYWORD_QUALIFIER".  Someone more expert with autotools 
could probably solve this more elegantly.

This changes will build everything not in the test directory on gcc34.

In tests/interopclient.cpp, there are some quirks with the 
initialization and usage of SOAPHex and SOAPHexBase.  Allowing the use 
of the automatic copy and assign constructor gets rid of the problem.  I 
have included this as a separate patch (01_gcc34-compat.patch) because I 
don't think this is necessarily the right way to solve the problem.  If 
you are using gcc34 and absolutely need tests/interopclient to build, 
you can apply this patch and it will "work".

This patch is taken against the 0.6.1 distribution tarball.  In 
retrospect, I should have taken it against CVS.  I would be happy to 
recreate this patch against CVS if these do not apply correctly there.

Thanks for the awesome SOAP library!
-Terrence