Compilation failure with gcc 4.4.7

[Tomi Ollila]

On Sat, Dec 19 2015, Justus Winter <4winter at informatik.uni-hamburg.de> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I just tried to compile notmuch with an oldish compiler, and that
> failed (if the compiler is indeed too old, then at least the error
> message should be more helpful):

see thread id:1439303834-27030-1-git-send-email-tomi.ollila at iki.fi

>
> % ./configure --prefix=$HOME/stow/notmuch
> [...]
> Sanity checking C compilation environment... OK.
> Sanity checking C++ compilation environment... OK.
> Reading libnotmuch version from source...
> *** Error: Reading lib/notmuch.h failed.
> Please try running configure again in a clean environment, and if the
> problem persists, report a bug.
> % cc -g -O2 _libversion.c -o _lib
> In file included from _libversion.c:2:
> lib/notmuch.h:858: error: wrong number of arguments specified for ‘deprecated’ attribute
> lib/notmuch.h:915: error: wrong number of arguments specified for ‘deprecated’ attribute
> lib/notmuch.h:1011: error: wrong number of arguments specified for ‘deprecated’ attribute
> lib/notmuch.h:1048: error: wrong number of arguments specified for ‘deprecated’ attribute
> % gcc --version
> gcc (GCC) 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-16)
> Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
> warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
>
> Cheers,
> Justus
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