Re: [gpsd-dev] Bernd's CheckFunc Fix

[Fred Wright]

On Sat, 7 Jan 2017, Jon Schlueter wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 7:02 PM, Fred Wright <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Fri, 6 Jan 2017, Bernd Zeimetz wrote:
> >> On 01/04/2017 02:56 AM, Fred Wright wrote:
> >> > I just did in the interests of expediency, but as yet there's no evidence
> >> > that anyone other than Bernd sees the problem that the extra 50 lines of
> >> > code are trying to fix.
> >>
> >> ... right now it fails to build while including compiler.h.
> >
> > That's the known issue with the Qt build, which I've been ignoring since
> > Jon said he was going to look into it.  It has nothing to do with
> > CheckFunc.  What happens when you build with qt=no?
>
>
> Looking closer at how the QT support was hacked in, I'm inclined to
> either re-write
> it and correctly extract the c++ isms that are scattered through the C
> code, or drop the qt support all together if we don't have an active
> developer to maintain it.

Dropping it altogether seems overly heavy-handed.  If it's too broken to
leave enabled, then I'd suggest downgrading it to "experimental" and
making qt=no the default.  That way, anyone who wants to can still "use at
own risk", but the default build isn't broken.  Though just making it
build shouldn't be too hard.

My impression is that Rob would like to have it work, but that isn't the
same as volunteering to maintain it. :-)

Fred Wright