[GRASS-dev] Re: [Ffmpeg-devel] Problems with preC99 compilers

[Markus Neteler]

For the record, here a followup...

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On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 02:11:05AM +0300, Uoti Urpala wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 12:37 +0300, M??ris Narti??s wrote:
> > I was compiling recent GRASS GIS version but it failed on ffmpeg includes due 
> > to one line comments. One line comments (//) where introduced in C99, thus 
> > preC99 compilers do not understand them.
> 
> All widely used compilers from the past several years understand them.
> Even the obsolete gcc versions from before any real C99 support
> understood them.
> 
> > gcc version 4.1.2 20060920 (prerelease)
> 
> Supports not only // but most of the more complex features of C99 too.
> 
> > Error message:
> > gcc -I/home/maris/soft/grass-6.2.0RC1/dist.i686-pc-linux-gnu/include  -g -ansi -Wall
> 
> The -ansi switch explicitly sets the standard back to C89 and disables
> support for any features of current C and GNU extensions that were not
> present in C89. Remove that switch and it'll compile.
>