Re: Problem compiling GNU APL 1.8 on LMDE 5

[Christian Robert]

try:

  CXXFLAGS="-Wno-maybe-uninitialized" ./configure

this may work on your platform.

Xtian.


On 2022-05-20 16:04, Mr. Brian B. McGuinness wrote:
> I just upgraaded to Linux Mint Debian Edition 5.  This requires me to reinstall 
> GNU APL, which was on the root partition, which was wiped and reformatted.
>
> I tried
>
> ./configure --with-postgresql RATIONAL_NUMBERS_WANTED=yes
>
> but the configure program couldn't find PostgreSQL, even though it is 
> installed.  I don't know whether this is because I need to install some 
> optional PostgreSQL package.
>
> So then I tried
>
> ./configure  RATIONAL_NUMBERS_WANTED=yes
> make
>
> and got an error message:
>
> In file included from Shape.cc:21:
> Shape.hh: In member function ‘Shape Shape::insert_axis(Axis, ShapeItem) const’:
> Shape.hh:68:46: error: ‘*(const ShapeItem*)((char*)& ret + <unknown> *8 +8)’ 
> may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
>     68 |      loop(r, MAX_RANK)   rho[r] = other.rho[r];
>        |                                   ~~~~~~~~~~~^
> cc1plus: all warnings being treated as errors
>
> so APL wouldn't compile.  So I tried
>
> ./configure
> make
>
> and got the same error.