gcc 4.5 doesn't like gdbm.h

[Rex Dieter]

Sam Varshavchik wrote:

> gcc 4.5 complains when compiling some C++ code that includes gdbm.h, with
> a spurious warning:
> 
> #include <gdbm.h>
> 
> class xx {
> 
>  public:
>     GDBM_FILE dbf;
> 
> };
> 
> [mrsam at octopus tmp]$ cat foo.c
> #include "foo.h"
> [mrsam at octopus tmp]$ g++ -c foo.c
> In file included from foo.c:1:0:
> foo.h:3:10: warning: ‘xx’ has a field ‘xx::dbf’ whose type uses the
> anonymous namespace
> 
> The fix to gdbm.h, to get rid of this warning, is trivial, and has zero
> impact.
> 
> I wrote to gdbm's listed maintainers two months ago, with no response.
> Given that gdbm hasn't been updated in nearly a decade, I have to believe
> that nobody really cares about this. Except developers who take a small
> amount of pride that their code gets happily consumed by gcc, even with
> -Werror. I see no way to work around this myself, it needs to be fixed in
> gdbm.h.
> 
> If anyone here knows gdbm's maintainers, a minor release that tweaks the
> header file, so that it can be pushed into Fedora, would be appreciated.

Please file a bug (and mention the # here), preferably with a patch, and I'm 
sure if the maintainers dont get to it, a provenpackager can and will (I 
offer to if it's not acted upon promptly).

-- Rex