speech-dispatcher-0.5 and gcc4 (was: Re: Source tarball for SpeechD-Up available)

Janina Sajka janina at rednote.net
Mon Aug 15 09:48:10 EDT 2005


Thanks for this response, Hynek. I'm glad to hear that gcc-4 is already
supported in CVS.

Let me then ask the bigger question: What's the current story about
alsa. When is speech-dispatcher moving to alsa?

Hynek Hanke writes:
> > I'm wondering about speech-dispatcher and gcc 4. At least, I think
> > that's why I'm getting the following compile error. If so, are there any
> > plans to support gcc-4? Or, is this something else?
> 
> Yes, this is a problem of compiling speech-dispatcher-0.5 (and maybe earlier
> versions) with gcc4. It's fixed in the CVS, however, I don't recommend to
> install the CVS version for ordinary use if you don't plan to help
> testing/debugging -- it's just not as widely tested as an official release and
> therefore may contain bugs.
> 
> So for now, I recommend you to compile speech-dispatcher-0.5 with an earlier
> version of gcc. speech-dispatcher-0.6 (when it's ready) will work fine with
> gcc4.
> 
> With Regards,
> Hynek
> 
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