[Dock-fans] GCC 4.3 and compiling Dock 6.2 errors

Scott Brozell sbrozell at scripps.edu
Mon Mar 16 13:44:33 PDT 2009


Hi Jim,

On Sun, 15 Mar 2009, Jim Parker wrote:

> For the dock maintainers,
>   This past weekend I attempted to compile Dock 6.2 on an Ubuntu system 
> which among other upgrades uses gcc-4.3.2.  The problem is that gcc 4.3 
> has been "improved" to simplify the system header dependencies
> 
> see link
> http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.3/porting_to.html
> 
> The result is that several #include directives have to be added to the 
> .h files in order to get dock to compile -- doing some searching of the 
> archives this was addressed here.
> 
> http://blur.compbio.ucsf.edu/pipermail/dock-fans/2008-July/001672.html
> http://blur.compbio.ucsf.edu/pipermail/dock-fans/2008-September/001706.html
> 
> 
> The reason for this post was just to identify the source of the errors 
> (handling of header files by gcc-4.3), and find out if an updated 
> version was forthcoming, or if an updated version of the source would be 
> desired.

Thanks for the note.
As far as I know all these are fixed in our 6.3 development version.
We plan to release 6.3 soon.

Scott



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