gcc4 sucks. amarok is refusing to configure.

[Belegdol]

Hi. I ve got a problem compiling amarok 1.3beta2. gcc4 is blacklisted, so i tried to compile it using gcc 3.2.3 which is also supplied with Fedora Core 4. Here is what I get:

[jsikorski@DOMOWY amarok-1.3-beta2]$ make
make all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jsikorski/downloads/amarok-1.3-beta2'
Making all in amarok
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/jsikorski/downloads/amarok-1.3-beta2/amarok'
Making all in src
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/jsikorski/downloads/amarok-1.3-beta2/amarok/src'
Making all in amarokcore
make[4]: Entering directory `/home/jsikorski/downloads/amarok-1.3-beta2/amarok/src/amarokcore'
if /bin/sh ../../../libtool --silent --mode=compile --tag=CXX g++32 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../.. -I../../../amarok/src -I../../../amarok/src/amarokcore -I../../../amarok/src -I../../../amarok/src/engine -I../../../amarok/src/plugin -I../../../amarok/src/statusbar -I/usr/include/kde -I/usr/lib/qt-3.3/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT -D_REENTRANT -Wnon-virtual-dtor -Wno-long-long -Wundef -ansi -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D_BSD_SOURCE -Wcast-align -Wconversion -Wchar-subscripts -Wall -W -Wpointer-arith -Wno-non-virtual-dtor -O2 -Wformat-security -Wmissing-format-attribute -fno-exceptions -fno-check-new -fno-common -DQT_CLEAN_NAMESPACE -DQT_NO_ASCII_CAST -DQT_NO_STL -DQT_NO_COMPAT -DQT_NO_TRANSLATION -MT main.lo -MD -MP -MF ".deps/main.Tpo" \
-c -o main.lo `test -f 'main.cpp' || echo './'`main.cpp; \
then mv -f ".deps/main.Tpo" ".deps/main.Plo"; \
else rm -f ".deps/main.Tpo"; exit 1; \
fi
In file included from /usr/include/kde/kapplication.h:25,
from ../../../amarok/src/app.h:22,
from main.cpp:19:
/usr/include/kde/kdeversion.h:49: visibility arg must be one of "hidden",
"protected" or "internal"
/usr/include/kde/kdeversion.h:56: visibility arg must be one of "hidden",
"protected" or "internal"
/usr/include/kde/kdeversion.h:63: visibility arg must be one of "hidden",
"protected" or "internal"
/usr/include/kde/kdeversion.h:70: visibility arg must be one of "hidden",
"protected" or "internal"
/usr/include/kde/kdeversion.h:76: visibility arg must be one of "hidden",
"protected" or "internal"
In file included from /usr/include/kde/kapplication.h:40,
from ../../../amarok/src/app.h:22,
from main.cpp:19:
/usr/include/kde/kinstance.h:156: warning: `visibility' attribute does not
apply to types
In file included from ../../../amarok/src/app.h:22,
from main.cpp:19:
/usr/include/kde/kapplication.h:1384: warning: `visibility' attribute does not
apply to types
/usr/include/kde/kapplication.h:1404: visibility arg must be one of "hidden",
"protected" or "internal"
/usr/include/kde/kapplication.h:1455: warning: `visibility' attribute does not
apply to types
In file included from crashhandler.h:14,
from main.cpp:20:
/usr/include/kde/kcrash.h:120: warning: `visibility' attribute does not apply
to types
In file included from /usr/include/kde/kaboutdata.h:25,
from main.cpp:21:
/usr/include/kde/klocale.h:73: visibility arg must be one of "hidden",
"protected" or "internal"
/usr/include/kde/klocale.h:82: visibility arg must be one of "hidden",
"protected" or "internal"
/usr/include/kde/klocale.h:95: visibility arg must be one of "hidden",
"protected" or "internal"
/usr/include/kde/klocale.h:1309: warning: `visibility' attribute does not apply
to types
In file included from main.cpp:21:
/usr/include/kde/kaboutdata.h:117: warning: `visibility' attribute does not
apply to types
/usr/include/kde/kaboutdata.h:163: warning: `visibility' attribute does not
apply to types
/usr/include/kde/kaboutdata.h:558: warning: `visibility' attribute does not
apply to types
make[4]: *** [main.lo] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/jsikorski/downloads/amarok-1.3-beta2/amarok/src/amarokcore'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/jsikorski/downloads/amarok-1.3-beta2/amarok/src'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/jsikorski/downloads/amarok-1.3-beta2/amarok'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jsikorski/downloads/amarok-1.3-beta2'
make: *** [all] Error 2
[jsikorski@DOMOWY amarok-1.3-beta2]$

Is there any way to omit this problem? Why the hell has fedora switched to such a s****y compiler which is thought to be unstable even by its maintainers? And also I wouldn't like to use amarok from extras, because it's 1.2.4, doesn't support neither xine-engine nor helix-engine. Greets.

[chaosmcgruff]

If you don't mind using GCC4 (yes, there was a problem with 4.0.0, but that does not affect the FC4 release, and it still generates unbroken KDE code fine for me) then there is an easy way to do this.
Just edit the configure file and find these lines:
(for amaroK SVN it starts at 4201)

#ifdef __GNUC__
#if __GNUC__ == 4 && __GNUC_MINOR__ == 0 && __GNUC_PATCHLEVEL__ == 0
choke me
#endif
#endif

Well, you can either take that whole chunk out, or simply change __GNUC_PATCHLEVEL__ from 0 to something arbitrary (why not 1?)

Anyways, hopefully that fixes your problem,
Paul

[joopndufus]

A fix that _might_ be a little less damaging to your system:

install the rpms:
compat-gcc-32
compat-gcc-32-c++

Then configure as: './configure CC=gcc32'