Compile error on clean build on Fedora 26

[Sumit Bhardwaj]

John and Alex,

I had some problem compiling on clean Fedora 26 as well. I fixed and sent a
PR (https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/pull/160). Please have a look when
you get a chance.

Thanks,
Sumit

On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 3:42 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

>
> > On Jul 20, 2017, at 3:17 PM, Alex Aycinena <alex.aycinena at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > On a new clean clone on a Fedora 26 VM, with the following configure:
> >
> > ../gnucash-clean/configure
> > --srcdir=/home/gnucash-dev/gitcheckouts/gnucash-clean
> > --prefix=/opt/gnucash-git/gnucash-clean
> >
> > I get the following error on make:
> >
> > In file included from
> > /home/gnucash-dev/gitcheckouts/gnucash-clean/
> src/libqof/qof/guid.cpp:25:0:
> > /home/gnucash-dev/gitcheckouts/gnucash-clean/
> src/libqof/qof/guid.hpp:52:51:
> > error: dynamic exception specifications are deprecated in C++11
> > [-Werror=deprecated]
> >     static GUID from_string (std::string const &) throw
> > (guid_syntax_exception);
> >                                                   ^~~~~
> > /home/gnucash-dev/gitcheckouts/gnucash-clean/
> src/libqof/qof/guid.cpp:346:45:
> > error: dynamic exception specifications are deprecated in C++11
> > [-Werror=deprecated]
> > GUID::from_string (std::string const & str) throw (guid_syntax_exception)
> >                                             ^~~~~
> > cc1plus: error: unrecognized command line option
> ‘-Wno-deprecated-register’
> > [-Werror]
> > cc1plus: all warnings being treated as errors
> > make[5]: *** [Makefile:757: guid.lo] Error 1
> > make[5]: Leaving directory
> > '/home/gnucash-dev/gitcheckouts/gnucash-clean-build/src/libqof/qof'
> >
> > Builds OK on Fedora 25 so osomething must have changed between the two.
>
> Yeah, gcc v7 has a lot more warnings about obsolete behavior. The
> committee decided that two C++99 features, throw specs and auto_ptr, were
> irretrievably bad ideas so it's kind of surprising that compilers haven't
> been complaining about them for longer.
>
> Grep found only that one, and I pushed a commit removing it. If you find
> more by all means remove them.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
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