Re: [PATCH] Fix compile for GCC 4.4

[Patrick McCarty]

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Patrick McCarty <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 01:00:14AM -0700, Patrick McCarty wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I need the attached patch to compile LilyPond.
>
> On second thought, please ignore this patch for now.  Even though I
> currently need it, I doubt very many distributions are updating GCC
> until 4.4.1 comes out, because of all the problems associated with the
> 4.4 release.  Plus, things could change before 4.4.1.
>
> In other words, those using Arch Linux *do* need this patch, and I
> just patched the "lilypond-devel" package in the Arch User Repository,
> so everything should be okay for a while...

An update...

The GCC change was intentional.  See the section "Strict
null-terminated sequence utilities" on this page:

http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.4/porting_to.html

Any comments?

-Patrick