Greetings all. This is not a question. Recently, we changed our OS to Fedora Core 9. The C++ compiler that came with it was gcc version 4.3.0. I had some problems with compiling ns-2.33 with this version of gcc.
Apparently, the new version of gcc is less tolerant with some programming styles including assigning constant strings to nonconstant char* pointers. There were some other errors, too. To cut it short, if you have similar problems, have a look at this website http://www.q2s.ntnu.no/~paquerea/ns.php, which was kindly provided by Laurent Paquereau at Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Quoted from this website is the following text: FAQ Warnings generated by newest versions of gcc Using the newest versions of gcc to compile ns-2 with -Wall triggers the following warnings: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to 'char*' warning: suggest explicit braces to avoid ambiguous 'else' warning: suggest parentheses around && within || warning: suggest parentheses around comparison in operand of & warning: 'typedef' was ignored in this declaration To ignore the first four types of warnings, add -Wno-write-strings - Wno-parentheses on line 3903 in configure. To correct the files causing these warnings, download and apply this patch. I wasted some time searching for this patch. I hope it will save you all some time. Thanks to Laurent Paquereau. Regards, Guray -------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Guray ACAR Centre for Communication Systems Research (CCSR), University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH, United Kingdom. Tel.: +44-1483-689123 Fax: +44-1483-686011 http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/ccsr
