[Ipopt] Missing random generator function using Cygwin 64

[Tony Kelman]

Good.

This worries me slightly. If anyone on the mailing list has access to a Linux distribution where GCC 4.8.3 is already easily available, I’d appreciate if you could contact me and let me know whether or not you see the same thing. I have no idea at the moment whether this change in behavior is specific to Cygwin or will start showing up on Linux as well.

Thanks,
Tony


From: Yao Xie 
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2014 8:28 AM
To: Tony Kelman ; ipopt at list.coin-or.org 
Subject: RE: [Ipopt] Missing random generator function using Cygwin 64

Yes, it works... after I downgraded gcc from 4.8.3 to 4.8.2 

Thanks again. 

Yao 
  
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From: Tony Kelman (kelman at berkeley.edu) 
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2014 08:49 AM 
To: Yao Xie (xieyao04 at gmail.com); ipopt at list.coin-or.org 
Subject: Re: [Ipopt] Missing random generator function using Cygwin 64 
Ah, crap. 
conftest.cc:75:22: error: ISO C++ forbids casting between pointer-to-function and pointer-to-object [-Werror=pedantic] 
   char *p = (char *) rand; 
                      ^ 
Apparently you’ve updated your GCC more recently than I have, and now in 4.8.3 this old-autotools method of checking for the existence of a function is an error, where it used to be a warning. I’m really surprised the grouping of a warning would be changed in a point release like that... the right solution is to update our autotools version, but that’s a big job that we haven’t put enough full-time work into yet. I’ll try to think if there’s a quick short-term fix for this, but in the meantime can you try reverting your GCC version to the previous release through Cygwin’s setup program? 
-Tony 
P.S: The attachment came through to me personally, but I guess not the mailing list. For future use you can try uploading log files somewhere like gist.github.com and send a link in your message. 
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