From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Eric Bavier <ericbavier@openmailbox.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] gnu: Add steghide.
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 19:53:24 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160823235324.GC24374@jasmine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160823171949.645525f2@openmailbox.org>
On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 05:19:49PM -0500, Eric Bavier wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Aug 2016 16:16:11 -0400
> Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> wrote:
> > My understanding is that '-fpermissive' downgrades some compiler errors
> > to warnings. Is that correct?
>
> Correct. Specifically, this is to avoid:
>
> MHashPP.cc:123:38: error: invalid conversion from ‘uint8_t* {aka unsigned char*}’ to ‘char*’ [-fpermissive]
>
> which I'm not comfortable developing a better fix for.
Okay. Can you mention that specific error in a code comment? It seems
like valuable information to me.
>
> >
> > > diff --git a/gnu/packages/patches/steghide-fixes.patch b/gnu/packages/patches/steghide-fixes.patch
> >
> > I don't understand what this patch does (I don't know any C++). Can you
> > add some comments explaining it? Should we try to get the upstream
> > maintainers to apply it?
>
> This patch fixes an "undefined ULONG_MAX" error and "specializing
> member ‘...’ requires ‘template<>’ syntax" errors.
>
> Upstream appears to currently be in limbo, but I just sent the patch to
> the mailing list.
Okay, maybe wait a couple days in case they respond?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-23 23:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-23 6:15 [PATCH 1/4] gnu: Add mlocate Eric Bavier
2016-08-23 6:15 ` [PATCH 2/4] gnu: Add steghide Eric Bavier
2016-08-23 20:16 ` Leo Famulari
2016-08-23 22:19 ` Eric Bavier
2016-08-23 23:53 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2016-08-23 6:15 ` [PATCH 3/4] gnu: Add Swish-e Eric Bavier
2016-08-23 6:27 ` Leo Famulari
2016-08-23 6:49 ` Eric Bavier
2016-08-23 20:46 ` Leo Famulari
2016-08-23 22:34 ` Eric Bavier
2016-08-23 6:15 ` [PATCH 4/4] gnu: Add Tomb Eric Bavier
2016-08-23 20:50 ` Leo Famulari
2016-08-23 22:41 ` Eric Bavier
2016-08-23 23:50 ` Leo Famulari
2016-08-23 20:12 ` [PATCH 1/4] gnu: Add mlocate Leo Famulari
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