gcc-3.1: problems with filebuf constructor for FILE*

[Scott Johnston]

Jonathan Wakely wrote:

>On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 09:36:02AM -0700, Scott Johnston wrote:
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>>No, that doesn't compile for me.  I saved the above program into test.cc and
>>compiled with plain vanilla gcc-3.1 on RedHat 6.2, and I got the following
>>error messages.
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>>gcc test.cc
>>In file included from /usr/local/include/g++-v3/fstream:48,
>>                from /usr/local/include/g++-v3/ext/stdio_filebuf.h:30,
>>                from test.cc:1:
>>/usr/local/include/g++-v3/bits/basic_file.h:52: parse error before `{' token
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>This is a known problem, caused by installing a new release over an older
>release, see http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/faq/index.html#4_0
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>The problem is that an older version of basic_file.h is being found, and
>it isn't compatible with the new filebuf classes.
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>jon
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Thanks for pointing that out.  I thought I was doing good to find the 
documentation on the
new stdio_filebuf class.  Simply deleting /usr/local/include/g++-v3 from 
3.0.*  before
installing 3.1 solves the problem.

Scott Johnston
http://www.ivtools.org