[mythtv] 0.24-fixes complilation error

[Jean-Yves Avenard]

On 21 October 2010 18:03, Torbjörn Jansson
<torbjorn.jansson at mbox200.swipnet.se> wrote:
> Hello all.
> Tried to compile 0.24-fixes rev 26934 and all I got was this error.
> Any ideas on what's wrong?
>

An issue with your compiled.

std::abs isn't defined with all C++ compiler. GNU C++ should have it
though, I thought all g++ >= 3 had it.

For the time being, you can add at the top of RingBuffer.cpp:
namespace std
{
    long long abs(long long x)
    {
      return x < 0 ? -x : x;
    }
}




>
> RingBuffer.cpp: In member function 'long long int RingBuffer::Seek(long long
> int, int, bool)':
> RingBuffer.cpp:1924: error: call of overloaded 'abs(long long int)' is
> ambiguous
> /usr/include/stdlib.h:699: note: candidates are: int abs(int)
> /usr/include/c++/4.3/cstdlib:144: note:                 long int
> std::abs(long int)
> /usr/include/c++/4.3/cmath:107: note:                 long double
> std::abs(long double)
> /usr/include/c++/4.3/cmath:103: note:                 float std::abs(float)
> /usr/include/c++/4.3/cmath:99: note:                 double std::abs(double)
> make[2]: *** [RingBuffer.o] Error 1
>
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