[Firebird-devel] gcc - a moving target

[Ray H. <ra...@le...>]

I had succeeded in building Sun Solaris 1.5.2 firebird but did not install
it as I wanted to recompile with the newer gcc I was building (and wanted
to be able to reboot machine if required).  The compile was successful
with gcc 3.3.3 but I was upgrading to 3.4.3 (56 hours due to java build -
yuck - I won't do that again).

In the meantime, I received several pointers (thanks to you all)
suggesting that I use some level of optimization (NO, NO, NO - someone is
exaggerating - optimizers don't double or triple performance - maybe help
by 10% if very lucky but that is if you write bad code and you guys don't
, but OK I will go to -O2 from -O0 - even though I have had terrible
results in the past with my own code sets - as have others) and someone
else mentioned that perhaps I should force 64 bit compiles not 32 as in
the default (a good idea - now I am not clear if SFIO is required here or
not --- ???? anyone - the notes say it is not needed for 64 - I can try
both ways WHEN I get my compiler back).

So here I go ready to re-compile in newest latest and greatest GCC. Here
is what I get - about 1 minute into the suite.

I am considering going back to 3.3.3 as firebird is more important than
GCC latest to me.

for this line (I think we don't like that ampersand):

	} catch(const std::exception&) {

.../src/include/../common/classes/tree.h:513: error: expected
unqualified-id
before '&' token
..../src/include/../common/classes/tree.h:513: error: ISO C++ forbids
declaration of `type name' with no type
..../src/include/../common/classes/tree.h:513: error: expected `)' before
'&' token
..../src/include/../common/classes/tree.h:513: error: expected `{' before
'&' token
..../src/include/../common/classes/tree.h:513: error: expected
primary-expression before ')' token
..../src/include/../common/classes/tree.h:513: error: expected `;' before
')' token

Still working on being able to post to this list directly and having fun
getting in -even though I subscribed in source forge - I need to somehow
join the group without getting my web page mail connection aroused. When I
try to subscribe it tries to configure me and I don't use that as a mail
mechanism.

Still stuck on this product (I guess I will always be - I love it even
after 10+ years of using it).

Ray